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On on before January 24, 2020 Beaumont experienced a HIPAA Privacy Data Breach. Over 1184 healthcare records have been affected. This incident is under investigation by user icon U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights.
In an agreement with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Sentara Hospitals (Sentara) have agreed to take corrective actions and pay $2.175 million to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance...
West Georgia Ambulance, Inc. (West Georgia), has agreed to pay $65,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to adopt a corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance...
It’s a simple fact that, even on non-agile teams, groups that don’t share what they know and learn openly will fail. Software development, despite what most people think, should never be a single person focused on a single task. One person cannot know everything and so cannot produce the software quality that multiple minds can bring together.
Sometimes the project requirements makes one appearance – at the beginning of the project. Your product backlog and user stories should be a breakdown of your project requirements. Your project requirements should be reviewed almost as much as your product backlog. Teams, priorities, and goals change in the course of a project.
It’s a simple fact that, even on non-agile teams, groups that don’t share what they know and learn openly will fail. Software development, despite what most people think, should never be a single person focused on a single task. One person cannot know everything and so cannot produce the software quality that multiple minds can bring together.
"Can I go to prison for this violation?" Quite often do I hear this question from healthcare and life science clients. Although very rare, there are occasions where some have been imprisoned for violating a provision in the Health Insurance Portability and...
Before you setup your SharePoint farm, take a look at some of the highlights from SharePoint AIIM report earlier this year. Planning now, will save you headaches and possible dangers later. Do you have any general comments to pass on to others undertaking a SharePoint...
Linq has been around for some time and I have always had a lukewarm relationship with the technology (see tweets). Besides SharePoint, I develop ASP.net and Silverlight applications and write my own DAL or use NHibernate. Everything works fine but tends to be over...