Word of Warning: join.me Does Not Sign Business Associate Agreements

Vendors HIPAA BAA

A few days ago, after making multiple attempts on behalf of a client to verify and clarify how join.me supports HIPAA compliance, specifically participating in Business Associate Agreements, I found that they do not. In fact, they do not consider themselves subject to HIPAA regulations, regardless of the possibility of PHI being stored on the … Read more

How You can Meet Compliance Challenges – and Investor Demands

growth and investor demands

From digital startups to financial firms, the ability to demonstrate information security per not only investor demands, but also board members and potential business partners, is widespread. As privacy and security consultants who also prep companies for certification, we’re seeing how the need for privacy and security compliance, long since a demand for healthcare, now stretches … Read more

OCR News: Single-location Pharmacy Pinged with Penalty & Corrective Action Plan

Remember a few years ago we wrote about When it Comes to HIPAA Violations, Size Doesn’t Matter? Then it was a small specialty physician practice in Arizona that was hit with a penalty – now it’s a Denver pharmacy, Cornell Prescription Pharmacy. A well-known single-location pharmacy serving the greater Denver metropolitan area, they’re being pinged … Read more