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HIPAA Rules and Social Media – 4 Ways to Prevent Violations

Employees working in the health care field mainly doctors and nurses and also insurance personnel or officers working for covered entities gather a lot of knowledge and experience over the years regarding the different aspects of ailments, treatments, insurance and legal angles. And with the growing popularity of various social media platforms they may wish […]

5 Reasons Why a HIPAA Certificate is so Important

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has an elaborate set of rules for the security and privacy of the personal information of patients. And all the entities like health care providers, insurance plan and insurance companies, collectively referred to as the covered entities, who handle such data are required to follow the guidelines […]

5 Examples of HIPAA Rule Violations That You Should Know About

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) takes the privacy of the patients’ personal information very seriously and ensures that covered entities like hospitals and insurance companies and plans follow all the guidelines framed for such purposes, and also undertakes to penalize such entities or their employees for any breach. These laws cover a […]

HIPAA Certificate – 5 Groups Who Must Get It

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was introduced for the purpose of protecting an individual with respect to health care insurance whether it was ensuring a continual cover or protecting the personal health information. The covered entities who handle such individuals and their information have to follow the HIPAA laws and face penalties […]

3 Circumstances in Which HIPAA Privacy Rights Can Be Waived

The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has detailed laws which clearly define how to handle any patient’s personal information. Such data is referred to as the protected health information (PHI) and is made up of details related to tests, diagnosis, treatment and personal information about the patient including address and contact numbers. Like […]

HIPAA Privacy – 5 Rights That You Have as an Employee

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is very strict about its Privacy Rules and management of protected health information (PHI) of the patients. The law requires covered entities to disclose the least amount of information to the minimal number of people and parties involved. Besides having several provisions to protect the privacy of […]

HIPAA Privacy – 5 Things You Should Know About Enforcement

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as the name suggests has a set of portability rules that see to it a person continues to get insurance cover under a host of circumstances, whereas accountability and privacy rules ensure that a patients protected health information or PHI is safeguarded with the help of different […]

HIPAA Privacy – 6 Steps an Employer Must Take to Ensure Compliance

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) introduced Privacy Rules a few years after the Act which contained stringent provisions for safeguarding protected health information (PHI) of the patients. To contain the rising threat to such sensitive data in the changing scenario HIPAA has made considerable amendments to such rules and have given it […]

Prevent Human Trafficking to Ensure Homeland Security and Global Security With Intelligence Studies

Undesirable migration is a problem for the United States and for the world. It is such a problem that Belgium sponsored an information campaign to prevent Congolese migrants from going to Belgium. The information campaign used by Belgium sought to clarify the realities of the irregular migration process. Irregular migration, defined as a foreign national […]

Body Guard Jobs Vs. Personnel Security Training

Since 9/11, many opportunities in the field of protection have opened for the recently discharged military member, the police officer looking for work after retirement, or anyone who is simply interested. Because of the parallels of the disciplines, many police officers and service members see the protection industry as a good fit. These individuals soon […]