HIPAA, Security, and the Mobile Device

With the inclusion of Biometrics to the IPHONE 5, as seen in this article, http://secureidnews.com/news-item/analysis-biometrics-and-the-iphone/, there are many pros and cons that will affect how to be hipaa compliant. Awesome that you can use your own identification to open you mobile device but it also comes with organizations and individuals who think this is not such a great thing. For many years putting sensitive information on...

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What to Expect When the HIPAA Auditors Arrive?

You think it’s an average, ordinary day and sit back as you go through the mail.  You pull an envelope out of the pile, read the return address and suddenly sit up straight.  You already know the contents of what is inside and your heart rate increases as you carefully slit open the top.  Despite telling yourself you could be wrong as you remove the letter, you discover  you are not.  It is the dreaded OCR audit notification...

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