Monday, May 5, 2014

The trend of moving from paper to digital  has moved from the large medical practices to smaller organizations. Dentist, chiropractors, holistic doctors, and acupuncturist are gaining significant return on investment that allows them to downsize their office space and/or expand their practice.  While organization are doing research on what digital solutions to use like BOX with the Snap-File solution there are still requirements to ensure daily practices and employees are meeting  HIPAA/HITECH security requirements. These organizations are establishing policy and practices for HIPAA HITECH safeguards and working to schedule risk assessments. A question we've been asked is "In an operation of one or two people, who is the Security Officer?"   What's more important than that who holds the position is are the necessary controls  to be in place and being managed to ensure  PHI (personal health information) data is protected. 

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