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		<title>5 Reasons Healthcare is Self-Assessing Its HIPAA Compliance</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefront.info/2011/12/09/5-reasons-why-healthcare-is-self-assessing-its-hipaa-compliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Cizik
Judging by the number of calls we&#8217;re getting, many organizations impacted by HIPAA are taking a serious renewed look at their HIPAA compliance stance. Maybe you should too. It may be because:

The continued publication of data breach stories (there are too many to list in our latest HIPAA Flash e-Newsletter); 
OCR audits are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to Expect When OCR Knocks on Your Door for a HIPAA Audit</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefront.info/2011/11/21/what-to-expect-when-ocr-knocks-on-your-door-for-a-hipaa-audit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kent Lane
You get the OCR audit notification letter and the panic begins. You are one of the &#8216;unlucky&#8217; providers or health plans to be audited as part of the OCR&#8217;s HIPAA HITECH audit program; what do you do first? 
During &#038; After the Audit
On the OCR website, it details each step of the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyday HIPAA Violations You Could Be Making Now</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefront.info/2011/11/07/everyday-hipaa-violations-you-may-be-making-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent Lane</dc:creator>
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By Kent Lane
Over the past 10 years of visiting clinics and hospitals, for business or personal reasons, it&#8217;s hard for our consultants not to observe HIPAA compliance; and most of the time they&#8217;re surprised at what they see. The question on their mind is, &#8220;who will be the next data breach victim?&#8221; Below are some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Steps to Survive a Visit from the New HIPAA Sheriffs</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefront.info/2011/08/01/6-steps-to-survive-a-visit-from-the-new-hipaa-sheriffs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two new &#8216;HIPAA sheriffs&#8217; in town…both ready to monitor and audit your HIPAA compliance practices. Recently, the OCR granted the authority to assess healthcare&#8217;s HIPAA compliance practices to State Attorney Generals (AGs) and the firm KPMG under the 2009 HITECH Act. 
Steps to Survive a HIPAA Audit
In preparing for a visit from your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIT Alert: New Term to Watch for, Data Liquidity</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefront.info/2011/04/20/hit-alert-new-term-to-watch-for-data-liquidity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter N. Cizik, CEO of BridgeFront
Let&#8217;s talk about the new term, &#8220;data liquidity.&#8221; No—it&#8217;s not some new physics concept. For those of you in health information technology, it&#8217;s a term you may begin to hear.
As the industry lurches forward trying to connect the many unique health information systems (EHRs, CPOE, eRx, disease registries, HIEs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Should Care About HIPAA Risk Assessments</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefront.info/2011/01/10/why-you-should-care-about-hipaa-risk-assessments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bridgefront.info/2011/01/10/why-you-should-care-about-hipaa-risk-assessments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the real reason you should care...a proper HIPAA risk assessment will do several things: validate that any controls that have been implemented are actually working; identify areas that lack controls that should have something implemented; and provide an audit trail documenting that each area of risk identified within the HIPAA regulations has been analyzed and addressed. ]]></description>
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		<title>HIPAA, Healthcare Reform, Meaningful Use. What Does That Mean For Me?</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefront.info/2010/10/23/hipaa-healthcare-reform-meaningful-use-%e2%80%93-what-does-that-mean-for-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you agree with the goals of healthcare reform and the way it&#8217;s being implemented or not &#8211; one thing we all can agree on is that it&#8217;s creating concern, confusion and most of all &#8211; change. Much of that &#8216;change&#8217; has yet to unfold, but several components are here.
The HITECH Act in 2009 brought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answer to the Most Common HIPAA HITECH Question</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefront.info/2010/01/29/answer-to-the-most-common-hipaa-hitech-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are new business associate agreements needed with the coming HITECH deadline?
This is probably the most common question I get asked these days. There are two camps of thought.

Many business associate agreements are written with &#8220;evergreen&#8221; language that automatically incorporate any future changes to HIPAA regulations. So &#8211; you could make an argument that the HITECH [...]]]></description>
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