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HIPAA certs
From: "Jason Hastain" <hastain () sbcglobal net>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:28:30 -0800
hey all, I have a few clients who are doctors running small practices. They have small LAN's and DSL connectinos behind a simple NAT router/firewall in one case and persoanl FW's in the other (unfortunatly not my decision in either case). Each has approached me about the HIPAA certs in the last week. I have read through what seams reams of pages on it b ut have been unable to deduce anything other than general good security practices. Strong passwords, offsite encrypted backups, real firewalls, etc and so on. Can anyone shed some light onto this subject or point me to a document with only the IT requirements prefereably boiled down to something simple? And also has anyone had any experience yet with the HIPAA investigators or quality control people checking on a site? any ideas what they are looking for? I understand it is a 20k dollar fine for each infraction so I would hate for it to be on my watch. tia Jason Hastain Hastain Consulting
Current thread:
- HIPAA certs Jason Hastain (Feb 20)
- Re: HIPAA certs Brian Jones (Feb 22)
- RE: HIPAA certs John Tolmachoff (Feb 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: HIPAA certs Chris Berry (Feb 22)
- Re: HIPAA certs Gene Yoo (Feb 24)
- RE: HIPAA certs Garbrecht, Frederick (Feb 22)
- RE: HIPAA certs Taylor, Bud (Feb 22)
- RE: HIPAA certs Robinson, Sonja (Feb 22)
- RE: HIPAA certs Tucker, Jason (Feb 24)
- RE: HIPAA certs Chris Berry (Feb 25)
- RE: HIPAA certs John Tolmachoff (Feb 25)
(Thread continues...)