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HIMSS17 – OCR’s Expectations for HIPAA Compliance
Lessons Learned at HIMSS17 The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) made it clear at HIMSS17 - it’s time for the healthcare industry to take action NOW. Here are the top messages we heard across multiple presentations by HHS (OCR, CMS), FDA, FTC, law firms, and cyber...
Culture of Compliance Awarded to The Urology Team
Third Rock is pleased to recognize The Urology Team, a well-known and respected Austin-based medical practice, with the Culture of Compliance Award. This is the first time Third Rock has presented this award which recognizes healthcare providers who have embraced...
Rentsys, Third Rock to Offer Guidance for HIPAA Compliance in DRJ Webinar
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE College Station, TX – February 07, 2017 – With cybersecurity concerns increasing the urgency for healthcare organizations to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security requirements, Brandon Tanner, senior...
HIPAA: Reducing Your Liabilities
As we perform more Security Risk Analyses, (we actually do privacy and security risk assessments), we continue to hear doctors, executives, and office managers consider HIPAA an onerous burden. They tend to see it as painful compliance overhead and a total waste of...
Third Rock is seeking HIPAA partners and consultants
Third Rock is seeking HIPAA partners and consultants! If you are a HIPAA guru like us, working to help physicians, covered entities, and business associates complete their HIPAA requirements in a simple and worry-free manner, we would love to talk with you! Our...
Cybersecurity: Make It Your Top Priority for 2017
Cesar Cerrudo wrote a great article, Why Cybersecurity Should Be The Biggest Concern Of 2017, that everyone who owns any connected device should read. As our Chief Compliance Officer, Ed Jones, keeps stating, it is the "Internet of Threats". Steve Sarnecki wrote a...
Focus on Technology: Change Your Router Passwords!
One of the most common services in healthcare is the connection to the internet. With all the focus on security and cyber breaches, one of the most vulnerable pieces on your connection to the internet is what is called the router / gateway. The router / gateway...
HIPAA’s “Last Mile” Challenge
The phrase “last mile” is commonly used across many industries to denote the final leg of a project or process - reaching the goal! More often than not, it’s referring to the most difficult part of the journey. In logistics, it is delivering your iPhone made in...
Why Physicians should never use public Wi-Fi
We all enjoy the convenience of being somewhere, like a coffee shop, airport, hotel room, or lobby of a building waiting, and hopping on the free WiFi to catch up on some work. Unfortunately, all healthcare workers should avoid free WiFi at all costs. It is very...
Knock, Knock – We’re here to perform an onsite HIPAA audit.
Welcome to 2017. If you haven't heard, the Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will perform several hundred on-site HIPAA audits this year. The possibility of being selected is highly unlikely, but if you are one of the "lucky" covered entities...