Keeping up with compliance requirements and preventing data breaches (in addition to managing complex network systems, office operation and patient care) can be a challenge for healthcare providers. In fact, a stunning 44% of all healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach.* No other industry in America has more disclosed breaches than healthcare. Without dedicated security management, breaches do prevail and the security failure endangers patients and spurs investigations.

From the enactment of HIPAA regulations to present, the most frequently investigated compliance issues are:

• Impermissible uses and disclosures of protected health information;
• Lack of safeguards of protected health information;
• Lack of patient access to their protected health information;
• Lack of administrative safeguards of electronic protected health information and Use or disclosure of more than the minimum necessary protected health information.**
• Privacy violation complaints, such as these, are on the rise. State privacy laws are only tightening. Attorney Generals are actively pursuing offenders.