According to the Office for Civil Rights, the most commonly alleged HIPAA complaints include impermissible uses and disclosures of protected health information (PHI), lack of PHI safeguards, lack of patient access to PHI, lack of administrative safeguards of electronic PHI, and use or disclosure of more than the minimum necessary PHI.
Privacy expert Rebecca Herold, FIP, CIPM, CIPP/US, CIPT, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI,CEO and founder of The Privacy Professor, and co-founder of Privacy & Security Brainiacs, recommends some key actions for practitioners to identify vulnerabilities in their security and privacy practices.
We caught up with privacy expert Rebecca Herold, FIP, CIPM, CIPP/US, CIPT, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI,CEO and founder of The Privacy Professor, and co-founder of Privacy & Security Brainiacs, to ask her some important HIPAA compliance questions.