Compliance:
Don't Get Burned–Report Your Breaches Now Or Risk a Higher Penalty Later
Published on Fri Jan 27, 2017
The HHS says there is no excuse for dragging your feet on reporting a HIPAA violation. Haste makes waste or so they say, but in the case of notifying the feds about a HIPAA breach the opposite is true. The sooner you alert the HHS secretary to the loss of protected health information (PHI) the better—don’t stew over the breach [...]