Hipaa News & Articles

There are a couple of major events this week so GRC has been busy. Force.com now offers ClearGRC for social governance, OpenText has released content management for the legal vertical, we looked at why SharePoint is barely legal and Clearwater has upgraded its HIPAA auditing tool. Symantec, meanwhile, offers new backup possibilities.

When it comes to enterprise compliance and records management (GRC), collaboration isn’t usually the first word that comes to mind. In fact, "collaborative records management" sounds like a compliance nightmare. This is precisely why you need a good records management foundation, before moving into social business.

HiSoftware (news, site) has announced a new version of their web content and social computing compliance solution Compliance Sheriff at SPTechCon, happening today in Boston. For those of you who are struggling to ensure your online properties are meeting the required accessibility and compliance guidelines, take a closer look at what's new and improved.

Consolidating its role in the health sector, Hyland (news, site) picks up CSC Group, a company that offers revenue, financial and paper-scanning tools for the kidney bean counters.

This week the GRC Roll-Up tackles IT security compliance, both the mistakes to avoid and the rewards it can reap. There's also some HIPAA thrown in for good measure.

Wasn’t it just last week that we were pondering the sustainability of GRC as an acronym? Have no fear; the world of GRC still spins. This week: financial advisers tackle social media, how to comply with multiple regulations and security compliance predictions for 2010.

StoredIQ (news, site) is giving the gift of insight this December. With its new StoredIQ Assessment Services, users can see into unstructured data from across the enterprise.

Information governance -- historically a bottom-up practice and now the responsibility of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) managers -- has been pushing its way into boardrooms around the world. Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, The Basel II accords and similar regulations have triggered this trend.

The problem is that the concerned parties rarely speak the same technical language. Modern enterprise information management systems are helping to address the problem but there are still a few secrets to success. Here are some things to keep in mind during your initiatives.