Staying Off the OCR Wall of Shame Means Thinking Beyond HIPAA and HITRUST

It’s no secret that healthcare organizations are a prime target for cybercriminals. In fact, one only has to visit https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf to see how many of these organizations fell victim to breaches in the past two years alone. Unfortunately, no healthcare entity—whether a provider, plan, or business associate—is immune to this threat. Even when companies meet compliance requirements like HIPAA and certification bodies like HITRUST, breaches continue to occur. In this post, we will not go into the weeds of the various controls requirements, nor will we discuss the effectiveness of these compliance requirements. However, we will show you how HYAS Insight and HYAS Protect services can help keep your organization off the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) “Wall of Shame.”