Quote of the Day

“I’m seeing a real big push from HIPAA-covered entities all the way down to the vendors saying you have to prove it to me. There is a heavier effort to push down and say to the vendor, ‘you have to demonstrate to me you are compliant....I work with a vendor who is busily providing all sorts of stuff, because [insurers] are asking for a copy of the risk analysis summary, a list of the policies and procedures they’ve adopted, sort of an attestation that ‘yes, I have good security on my network’ and things like that.”





— Chris Apgar, CEO and President of Apgar & Associates, LLC, told AIS’s Health Plan Week.