Healthcare Compliance Challenges That Smaller Firms Need to Overcome

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Healthcare Compliance Challenges That Smaller
Firms Need to Overcome
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• Maintaining a consistent healthcare compliance
  program is a challenge that many healthcare
  providers as well as other HIPAA covered
  organizations face constantly.
• Overcoming HIPAA compliance challenges can be
  particularly difficult for smaller healthcare
  organization due to a shortage of resources,
  budget, and skilled personnel.
• The matters became even worse a year ago, when
  the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a
  launch of initiative where HIPAA breaches thats
  affecting five hundred people or fewer will be
  more widely investigated.

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• Stay informed
• Healthcare industry is the only industry where
  the main treat to cybersecurity comes form
  internal actors.
• This makes it critical for the healthcare
  employers to come up with robust procedures and
  policies that minimize the risks from within the
  organization and train the employees on a
  regular basis to adhere to these policies.
• Healthcare compliance Las Vegas can exist
  excellently in an organization where a culture of
  privacy and security is encouraged, and this can
  take place only through proper education and
  staying informed.

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• Keep communication secure
• In order to safeguard sensitive health
  information, it is essential that the
  organization maintain a secure internal as well
  as external communications.
• Faxing, Email, and text messaging are all crucial
  forms of communications in any modern healthcare
  setting, but they arent very secure inherently
  lapse user-access controls, non-secure servers,
  and lack of encryption can cause significant
  security vulnerabilities.

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• Look beyond digital
• Today, breaches of the digital data are mostly
  making headline, but physical records too need to
  be handled with equal attention and care.
• In order to avoid HIPAA violations and to adhere
  to healthcare law Las Vegas, that could be caused
  by paper documents, the staff must be trained to
  be cautious and assume that everything on company
  file is confidential or private. 
• Even If a document seems to be old and unwanted,
  it should still be disposed off properly so as to
  make sure that the information within is
  indecipherable.

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• Protect mobile devices
• There are several potential benefits of the
  growing adoption of bring your own device or
  BYOD in the healthcare environments, however,
  there are certain risks involved as well. 
• According to the United States Department of
  Health and Human Services, ten percent of major
  healthcare data breaches involve mobile devices,
  making it critical for mobile device owners to
  ensure that their laptops, tablets or smartphones
  arent exposed to security vulnerabilities.

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