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What Is HIPAA?

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Employees who aren’t trained in HIPAA can pose an expensive risk to your organization. Curious security guards from the hospital violated HIPAA code and accessed private patient information. As a result, the hospital had to completely enhance its HIPAA training programs and work harder to ensure employees know their limits.

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The key things employers must know about HIPAA law

Business Management Daily

But what happens when employers need to access and store employee health information? You may have heard the term HIPAA thrown around in regard to medical privacy. However, HIPAA is often referenced incorrectly as the general public tends to have a lot of confusion about who HIPAA applies to and what it actually means.

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Are cell phones a HIPAA violation?

HR Digest

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has also put in some suggestions, especially for healthcare facilities. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has also put in some suggestions, especially for healthcare facilities. What is HIPPA about? They include: .

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Proposed HIPAA regulations would protect reproductive healthcare

Business Management Daily

What we learned last year: HIPAA requires group health plans, business associates, hospitals, and healthcare providers to protect employees’ personal health information, unless courts or law-enforcement agencies subpoena HIPAA-protected medical records. So what would these proposed regulations change?

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10 Best SOC 2 Compliance Software in 2024

HR Lineup

What is SOC 2 Compliance? Drata empowers organizations to achieve and maintain compliance certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA in a more efficient and cost-effective manner. To aid businesses in achieving and maintaining SOC 2 compliance, numerous software solutions have emerged.

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Data brokers could be mining employee data, the CFPB isn’t happy

Business Management Daily

Data brokers are already in your workplace, surveilling your employees and selling what they gather, whether you know it or not. Via wellness plans Wellness plans, of course, are constrained by HIPAA’s privacy provisions. And we’re not the only one who thinks there’s a creep factor here. There are many avenues. The case is Harmon v.

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COVID National Emergency Ends Early; Plan Sponsor Action Required

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What Is Ending? The end of the National Emergency brings the end of the “Outbreak Period” which gives additional time for individuals to: elect and pay for COBRA, exercise HIPAA Special Enrollment Rights to change plan elections mid-year, and file claims and request appeals of adverse claim decisions under ERISA.

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