Last week, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a toolkit for covered entities and business associates to use to perform a security risk assessment.

In a move that underscores the growing urgency around health care cybersecurity, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released version 3.6 of its ...

RapidFire Tools Monday launched a tool aimed at making it easier for MSPs to take advantage of expanding HIPAA compliance regulations and break into the health-care vertical. The Atlanta-based company ...

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The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking comments on how it can improve its security risk assessment tool, which is designed to help smaller organizations conduct assessments as required ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the HHS Office of the General Counsel (OGC), c0-developed a free mobile app and ...

Free mobile app delivers breach intelligence, compliance tools, and shared threat awareness for independent healthcare ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the HHS Office of the General Counsel (OGC), c0-developed a free mobile app and ...

Risk Concept Colorful Icons Set Regardless of the challenges a smaller group might have, a risk assessment is a baseline for any HIPAA program. The cost of this assessment is considerably less than a ...

A risk assessment is a mandatory annual task completed by a covered entity and a business associate. It is a HIPAA law created to ensure that all of the HIPAA compliance risks (administrative, ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has made available a free web-based risk analysis tool that has been approved by OCR. A version of this article was first ...