it is your responsibility to be secure, by the way, the first step to becoming HIPAA compliant is new Policies and Procedures, anyway, dealing with patient info electronically by any practice requires you to be secure no matter whose network you are on. it may be a group effort but things must be done to ensure a secure transmission (firewalls, encryption, VPN, etc...) not sure of your situation, so not sure who pays for or is responsible for the planning behind this...you are running behind though, you should start educating yourself now, and work on a plan of attack. hipaa introduces 80,000 violations with penalties up to $25,000 per violation...they don't mess around. let me know if I can help, it depends on where you are geographically, im in Florida. there is a lot to know, this is a project not a pizza order. I just want you to understand the severity behind it. HIPAA is being called the next IRS...let me know if you need help. Good luck.
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