{"id":2434,"date":"2013-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otava.test\/celebrate-corporate-compliance-and-ethics-week\/"},"modified":"2013-05-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T00:00:00","slug":"celebrate-corporate-compliance-and-ethics-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/celebrate-corporate-compliance-and-ethics-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week\" src=\"https:\/\/otava.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2013CandElogo.gif\" alt=\"Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>Everybody put your party hats on, it\u2019s time to celebrate! May 5-11 is <strong>Corporate Compliance and Ethics week<\/strong>, which means it\u2019s the perfect time for taking stock of your business and finding some great ways to make compliance a culture you and your staff can celebrate year-round.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Online Tech is doing our part to celebrate Compliance Week by spending some time with our friends down in the Indy-city for the Indiana HIMSS spring conference today. With the focus of today\u2019s conference being innovation, compliance week couldn\u2019t have come at a better time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Health IT, with hot topics like BYOD and mobile health are paving the way for different ways for patients and physicians to think about healthcare responsibility and management, which brings compliance struggles into the limelight. Couple that with the Health and Human Services (HHS) decision to hold Business Associates (BA) responsible for their spoke in the <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinetech.com\/compliant-hosting\/hipaa-compliant-hosting\/resources\/100-hipaa-compliant\">HIPAA compliance<\/a> wheel, and all eyes should be on the compliance guidelines.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">With all the importance put on having each company and their BAs compliant, it\u2019s hard to hear that <a href=\"https:\/\/otavawebsite.wpengine.com\/blog\/how-to-ensure-business-associates-are-hipaa-compliant\/\">68% of healthcare directors and IT managers who responded to the Healthcare Information Security Today 2013 Outlook Survey<\/a> aren\u2019t confident in the security measures controlled by their BAs. Here are a few tips that could help lower that statistic:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get The Audit Report<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is step one when you\u2019re shopping around for a <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinetech.com\/compliant-hosting\/hipaa-compliant-hosting\/overview\">HIPAA compliant hosting<\/a> provider. Any prospective provider should have been independently audited and will have a report to share with you. Do your due diligence and check that report. While it isn\u2019t going to guarantee your total compliance, you need to know your patient\u2019s data is being secured, even if you aren\u2019t there to secure it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get a BAA Signed<\/strong><br \/>\nThis isn\u2019t negotiable. Hosting providers for healthcare companies are considered Business Associates, and as such need to sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with you, clearly stating what duties they\u2019ll be performing, and what <a href=\"https:\/\/otavawebsite.wpengine.com\/solutions\/cloud-security\/\">physical<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/otavawebsite.wpengine.com\/solutions\/cloud-security\/\">administrative<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinetech.com\/secure-hosting\/technical-security\">technical<\/a> safeguards they have in place for your PHI. Word from the wise:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you use a cloud service, it should be your business associate. If they refuse to sign a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinetech.com\/secure-hosting\/hipaa-compliant-hosting\/resources\/hipaa-glossary-of-terms#Business%20Associate%20Agreement\">business associate agreement<\/a>, don\u2019t use the cloud service. \u2013<em> David S. Holtzman of the Health Information Privacy Division of OCR during a speech at the Health Care Compliance Association\u2019s 16th Annual Compliance Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That should be true of any hosting solution and provider you consider working with.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So celebrate getting compliant along with us and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinetech.com\/resources\/white-papers\/hipaa-compliant-data-centers\">HIPAA white paper<\/a>. Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinetech.com\/compliant-hosting\/hipaa-compliant-hosting\/resources\">HIPAA hosting resources<\/a>. Most importantly, let us know what you\u2019re doing to keep compliant throughout the year!<\/p>\n<p>Resources:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corporatecompliance.org\/products\/allproducts\/corporatecomplianceweekproducts.aspx\">Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianahimss.org\">www.indianahimss.org<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2013-01073.pdf\">HHS: Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement and Breach Notification Rules (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody put your party hats on, it\u2019s time to celebrate! May 5-11 is Corporate Compliance and Ethics week, which means it\u2019s the perfect time for taking stock of your business and finding some great ways to make compliance a culture you and your staff can celebrate year-round. Online Tech is doing our part to celebrate Compliance Week by spending some time with our friends down in the Indy-city for the Indiana HIMSS spring conference today. With the focus of today\u2019s conference being innovation, compliance week couldn\u2019t have come at a better time. Health IT, with hot topics like BYOD and mobile health are paving the way for different ways for patients and physicians to think about healthcare responsibility and management, which brings compliance struggles into the limelight. Couple that with the Health and Human Services (HHS) decision to hold Business Associates (BA) responsible for their spoke in the HIPAA compliance wheel, and all eyes should be on the compliance guidelines. With all the importance put on having each company and their BAs compliant, it\u2019s hard to hear that 68% of healthcare directors and IT managers who responded to the Healthcare Information Security Today 2013 Outlook Survey aren\u2019t confident in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"other_category":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Celebrate Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week! | OTAVA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s the perfect time for taking stock of your business and finding some great ways to make compliance a culture you and your staff can celebrate.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/celebrate-corporate-compliance-and-ethics-week\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Celebrate Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s the perfect time for taking stock of your business and finding some great ways to make compliance a culture you and your staff can celebrate.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/celebrate-corporate-compliance-and-ethics-week\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"OTAVA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-05-07T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/otava.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2013CandElogo.gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Irma Brillantes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Irma Brillantes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/celebrate-corporate-compliance-and-ethics-week\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/celebrate-corporate-compliance-and-ethics-week\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Irma Brillantes\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/#\/schema\/person\/35774075f8f4fcdd4eae80cb72034263\"},\"headline\":\"Celebrate Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week!\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-05-07T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/celebrate-corporate-compliance-and-ethics-week\/\"},\"wordCount\":487,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/celebrate-corporate-compliance-and-ethics-week\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/otava.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2013CandElogo.gif\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/celebrate-corporate-compliance-and-ethics-week\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/celebrate-corporate-compliance-and-ethics-week\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/celebrate-corporate-compliance-and-ethics-week\/\",\"name\":\"Celebrate Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week! 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