Compliance Regulations IT Governance 2/8/2015 Table of Contents Regulatory Compliance. Role of IT in Corporate Compliance. 3 Senior Management ignoring compliance mandates. Fines and Penalties 4 References 6 Regulatory Compliance. Role of IT in Corporate Compliance. Regulatory compliance intent is sometimes, to protect investors and their investments or how an industry-specific company handles private information. Also there regulations designed to provide transparency
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providers via the web can expedite service, security and privacy have to be considered and maintained. An organizational policy is required to provide guidance, direction and responsibilities to ensure compliance with all Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements. HIPAA is the acronym that was passed by Congress in 1996. (Health, n.d.) Purpose: To promulgate organizational policy, procedures, and program management for web security. This policy defines the technical
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Security Policy Cyberlaw, Regulations, and Compliance – TFT2 Task 1 Introduction: Heart-Healthy Insurance is currently evaluating their current security policy and have requested some changes to the policy concerning adding new users and the password requirements for the users. The end goal of the requested changes is to satisfy several compliance regulations that are required by law for their business. The regulations that need to be considered are: 1. PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry
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I From the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) perspective on HIPAA, contemplate the three basic areas which HIT professionals must be most concerned with are: (1) Privacy Rules (2) Security Rules, and (3) Standardized transaction code sets Write a paragraph on each of the 3 critical areas of HIPAA for a training session of your staff. Explain what they are, why they are important and how they impact staff duties and the organization. HIPAA Rules (1) Privacy Rules: The HIPAA (Health Insurance
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Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) requires entities to ensure the development and execution of organizational processes and internal controls designed to secure information systems. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) encompasses information security benchmarks for protecting consumer health information. Violation Penalties can range from $100-$1.5 million per violation and 1year-10year criminal sentences. ISO 17799 is an audit checklist
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HIPAA instituted the national standards for the privacy and security of guarding patient health information and the HITECH created breach notification requirements to provide more transparency for the patient whose information may be at threaten. HITECH insist on the HHS Office for Civil Rights to conduct administer and manage recurring audits for covered entity and business associate compliance with the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules. HHS phase 2 of the program will audit
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In 1996, the United States Congress enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) into law. The purpose of the law was to focus on providing greater access to health care for Americans and to address administrative activities regarding claims submissions to insurance carriers (American Medical Association, 2011). Along with streamlining the administrative process, HIPAA also guarantees patient privacy and has strict guidelines regarding how organizations can disclose a
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HIPAA- How To Avoid Data Breach? How do data breaches occur? • we suspect our information system has been • targeted and patient information exposed. After one a laptop and other portable device is lost or stolen. • We did a rapid assessment to mitigation of damage and is and define scope of the incident we discovered following facts: – – – – data are not encrypted laptop are not protected by password Information of patients are exposed. No log file exist What are consequences of these breaches
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Confidentiality HIPAA which is health insurance portability and accountability act was original put in place in 2003 to help provide patients medical records to be protected, and to keep this information away from anyone except whom the patient want to have that information. Once HIPAA became the privacy law, the government had to produce a way for patient’s medical records to be safe and stay safe and confidential. This means electronically as well as the paper trail. Medical facilities had to
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