Jan Elezian’s Article “Password conundrum” Featured in the June 2022 Issue of Compliance Today

SunHawk Consulting, LLC is excited to announce that Director Jan Elezian will be featured in the June 2022 issue of the HCCA Compliance Today Magazine! Be sure to pick up your copy of Compliance Today to read her article, Password conundrum.

Excerpt from “Password conundrum”

By Jan Elezian

There’s an app for just about everything these days. Online banking, games, email, services, shopping, and even accessing your health records require a password to enter. Each application asks you to supply a secret password that stops other people from entering without your permission. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency experts guide us to create a strong, complex password that is difficult for others (hackers) to guess. Every application has rules for creating what it construes to be a strong and complex password. Some dictate at least eight characters but fewer than 12. Others ask for at least one capital letter, a number, and a symbol. Some have a combination of each. Added to the recommendation that passwords are unique, the user has the conundrum of remembering and storing potentially dozens of passwords.

“Copyright 2022 Compliance Today, a publication of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA).”

Jan Elezian, MS, RHIA, CHC, CHPS
Director
SunHawk Consulting, LLC
Jan.Elezian@SunHawkConsulting.com

Jan Elezian has 40 years of Healthcare consulting experience including Health Information Management (HIM), HIPAA, Meaningful Use, Medicare/Medicaid Coding, Stark/Anti-Kickback, Research and Revenue Cycle compliance. Jan has also served in various administrative roles at integrated health systems and other healthcare providers. Jan is a Certified Healthcare Compliance Professional (CHC), a Certified Healthcare Privacy and Security Professional (CHPS), and a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA).