Understanding HIPAA Compliance Defining HIPAA Compliance The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or “HIPAA”, sets standards to protect sensitive and individually identifiable Protected Health Information (PHI) from disclosure. Under HIPAA, any company or individual that comes into contact with PHI must implement appropriate protective policies and procedures. And implementing and following those procedures is…
Building a well-rounded compliance training program can be tricky, and it goes deeper than just checking a few boxes. HR and Compliance leaders need to know what topics to cover, who to train and when to train, and it all needs to be packaged and delivered in a way that doesn’t cause training fatigue for…
As COVID-19 case numbers in the US continue to coast at an all time high, we need to keep our safety guards up now more than ever. Though, as the winter season pushes us indoors and reports of a vaccine grow more promising each day, we may continue to see our infection numbers climb. With…
Since news of the Coronavirus first hit early 2020, I think we have all been at least a little more cautious at the first sign of a sniffle. When I started to feel what felt like a cold coming on, I paid close attention. I was worried because my husband, an essential worker in the…