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The practice was formed by nationally-known and widely-respected information technology attorney John R. Christiansen after many years in large, national law and consulting firm practice, to provide service more directly, flexibly and creatively.
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Posted on January 20, 2013
HITECH Business Associate Rule Tool Section 7: Determining the HITECH-Compliant Business Associate Contract Date – UPDATED 09/19/13 IMPORTANT ERRATUM ON EVERGREEN CONTRACTS
PLEASE SEE SECTION 1 FOR INFORMATION ABOUT USING THIS TOOL [NOTE: Due to haste in drafting and inept editing on my own part, I left out the key word “not” in the sentence discussing automatically renewing or “evergreen” contracts, now inserted in RED in the second paragraph. Obviously this reversed the meaning. My actual interpretation, […]
Posted on January 20, 2013
HITECH Business Associate Rule Tool Section 6: Penalties for Business Associate Noncompliance – UPDATED 02/05
PLEASE SEE SECTION 1 FOR INFORMATION ABOUT USING THIS TOOL OCR may impose civil monetary penalties on both CEs and BAs for violations of any of the requirements of the Privacy or Security Rules. Where more than one CE or BA is responsible for a violation each may be subject to CMPs. Organizations are liable […]
Posted on January 20, 2013
HITECH Business Associate Rule Tool Section 5: Compliance as a Business Associate
PLEASE SEE SECTION 1 FOR INFORMATION ABOUT USING THIS TOOL Business Associates are directly responsible under the regulations for: Implementing Business Associate Contracts with any downstream Business Associates; Compliance with the Security Rule; Using and disclosing PHI only as permitted by their Business Associate Contract; Compliance with the Minimum Necessary rule; Notifying their upstream Business […]
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Olympia, Washington 98502
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