by RMC Inc. | Nov 28, 2018
Julia and I had the pleasure of attending the 2018 Privacy & Security Forum a couple of weeks ago. One of the sessions I attended was focused on what’s happening at OCR these days. The speaker was Roger Severino, Director of OCR and the moderator was Adam...
by RMC Inc. | Apr 10, 2018
Phishing fools the best employees. Impersonation has become slick – emails look nearly identical to those you’d get from a bank, shipping service, or online retailer. Even government agencies get used to perpetuate the scam. 6 Phishing-wary Best Practices Recognize...
by RMC Inc. | Jan 12, 2018
Well, the royal family’s security could be compromised, for one. If you missed it, Heathrow Airport, one of the busiest airports and Britain’s largest, is scrambling to understand how a memory stick (aka thumb drive) with extremely sensitive information ended up on a...
by RMC Inc. | Aug 14, 2017
Although the HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool has been out since 2009, the revised and updated web tool is head and shoulders above the original. You can look for information on reported breaches in your industry sector, what kinds of data breaches took place and the...
by RMC Inc. | Jun 26, 2017
There continues to be a fair amount of confusion out there when health information is PHI and when it’s PII. This is true for a number of business associates as well as hybrid covered entities. If the health information is generated by a covered entity doing a...
by RMC Inc. | May 15, 2017
The effects of last week’s ransomware cyber attack hitting Windows users is still hitting healthcare organizations worldwide. HHS and OCR continue to share information about this attack and reminds everyone to be very wary when opening email: Only open up emails...
