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UPDATED Feb 20 2017: We now have an online portal to help you organize your HIPAA compliance requirements and perform unlimited Security Risk Assessments, which form the core of your annual compliance reporting. Check it out at BasicHIPAA.com. After taking several clients through the full process of HIPAA compliance, I thought it would be a good time to record the experience and share some of the steps with our readers. … Read More

My son came home from school upset this week, after his math teacher informed me (in front of him) that he wasn’t doing his homework. As he is a child who otherwise excels in math (and in school in general) this was strange to me, and precipitated a conversation (at times lively) about what was going on. The solution ended up being as simple as emptying his backpack and starting … Read More

The transition from working for a single company to consulting for many different ones, which I went through a few years ago, was interesting in many ways. It was hard moving to the other side of the table — whereas in previous positions I had interviewed and vetted various consulting companies and contractors, now I was in the position of being interviewed, being vetted, on some level always looking for … Read More