Office of Civil Rights on HIPAA/HITECH Enforcement

Leon Rodriguez from the Office of Civil Rights was recently interviewed about OCRs findings from their pilot audits and investigations.  The direction is clear — covered entities need to have practical and comprehensive data security programs in place that start with a solid risk assessment and overall risk management plan.  With a long “inventory” of OCR cases yet to be...

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CIO Baldwin’s blog — “Top Five”

Having decided to engage as an IT healthcare consultant I added a blog to my web site.  My goal is to be thought provoking, principally to Healthcare IT professionals….. I was recently asked by the CEO of a Boston area software company my opinion as to the top 5 challenges keeping CIOs up at night.  It’s a great question and one I thought about back in March 2012 preparing for a...

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