Upgrade Now From Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Or You Won’t Be HIPAA Compliant. In less than six months Windows XP users won’t be able to get support from Microsoft; and in 2015 Microsoft Server 2003 support will be dropped as well. Hackers and cybercriminals...
According to Leon Rodriguez, director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), federal regulators will deploy a permanent HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) audit program beginning October 1, 2014. In 2012...
Lesson Learned — Healthcare Entities Must Perform HIPAA RISK ASSESSMENTS! Recently, a Chicago-based AMG Medical Group revealed that four million patient records were breached during a burglary at their administrative office. The Park Ridge Police Department were...
For the first time, Apple will be introducing more than one phone at one time! Over the past few months, Apple’s vast supply chain in China has disclosed enough information that observers are starting to feel certain about what Apple has in store for customers....
There have been many articles written about the risk of a HIPAA breach by business associates (BAs) such as the one reported in Fort Worth on July 11th. A contractor for Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth failed to destroy hundreds of thousands of...
Most people think that Google Glass is nothing more than a gimmick. However physicians have discovered amazing uses for the technology. Cardiothoracic surgeon, Pierre Theodore, M.D. of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, recently performed...
