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Information Security

‘Who’s Viewed Me?’ on Facebook

People keep falling for this one, so it’s worth reminding them – there isn’t a way to see who’s viewed your profile on Facebook, and any application that o

Oct 11, 2010
Education Information Security

Security Awareness and Social Networks: Why You Should Care, and What You Should Teach

You might have been avoiding it until now – thinking that social networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn …) is just a passing trend, or it’s only used by

Jun 21, 2010
HIPAA

HIPAA Compliance Business Associates Shouldering More Responsibilities

Business associate is an individual, group or an organization which participates or performs some activities on behalf of the Covered Entity in a capacity

Jun 8, 2010
HIPAA

Empowered OCR: Ensuring Better HIPAA Compliance From Covered Entity and Business Associate

The HHS office for Civil Rights also known as OCR, in its attempt to tighten HIPAA privacy regulations has detailed out six new ways to deal with reports r

May 25, 2010
HIPAA

HIPAA Compliance through Business Associate Agreement

The new amendment to HIPAA Privacy and Security rule recently passed by Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) and

May 22, 2010
HIPAA

Network Security Audit- Ensuring HIPAA Compliance

The electronic transaction of the confidential patient health information through organizational and public networks requires protection against unauthoriz

Apr 24, 2010
HIPAA

Ensuring HIPAA Compliance Through Network Penetration Testing

The health service providers and their business associates are required to provide services to their customers as per HIPAA compliance norms. The electroni

Apr 23, 2010
HIPAA

HIPAA Compliant Technology- Selecting the Right Biometric Technology

Delve into the role of biometric technology in safeguarding patient health information. Explore how advanced security aligns with HIPAA compliant technology, ensuring seamless, secure health transactions and safeguarding patient data

Apr 22, 2010
HIPAA

Smart Card: Ensuring HIPAA Compliance

The HIPAA law centers around two primary policies, conversion of the paper records into electronic format and creation of secure network, which securely ex

Apr 15, 2010
HIPAA

Ensuring HIPAA compliance in Voice Documentation System

HIPAA compliance in the office voice documentation system is mandatory to guarantee the safe processing of the patient health information over telephone li

Apr 13, 2010
HIPAA

HIPAA Compliance: Ensuring Safe Disposal of Patient Health Information Documents

The HIPAA compliance norms lay stress on the safe transaction and storage of the patient health information, whether on paper or in electronic format. The

Mar 30, 2010
HIPAA

HIPAA Compliance – Signing a Business Contract with Vendor to Ensure Safe Disposal of Medical Records

HIPAA compliance makes it mandatory for the covered entities like healthcare clinics, doctors, clearinghouses, health plan providers, hospitals and billing

Mar 30, 2010
HIPAA

HIPAA Compliance: Selecting the Right Software

The covered entities like hospitals, clearing houses, billing and coding companies, physicians, health insurance providers and multi-location clinics are b

Mar 27, 2010
HIPAA

Telemedicine: Employing Security Features to Achieve HIPAA compliance

Telemedicine is a branch of modern medicine in which patient health information is exchanged over a great distance, through a series of local and wireless

Mar 20, 2010
Information Security

10 Laws to Mention in Your Acceptable Use Training

If you’re developing an "Acceptable Use of IT Resources" training course (or even developing the policy itself), this blog post from TechRepublic is a very

Mar 18, 2010
HIPAA

HIPAA 5010- Graduating From HIPAA 4010 to Provide Better Health Insurance Service

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, addresses healthcare issues like, patient health information protection, insurance por

Mar 3, 2010
HIPAA

HIPAA Law-Selecting the Right User Authentication System

The main objective of the HIPAA law is to streamline health insurance system and provide continuous coverage to the people who change or loose their jobs.

Mar 2, 2010
HIPAA

HIPAA Law: Ensuring Secure Transmission of Patient Health Information Through Fax

Fax machine is a great asset, which organizations count on, to quickly send and receive information. It plays a significant role in managing well, the comm

Feb 27, 2010