The Stats Are Improving, But What’s Ahead? So far, the statistics on major health data breaches for 2013 look encouraging. And the stats for 2012 showed substantial improvement vs. 2011. But could we see a surge in breach reports after … Continue reading
Clinic disabled server firewall for nearly one year Pocatello, ID | May 23rd, 2013 Idaho State University (pictured above) will pay $400,000 to the U.S. Department of Health Human Services to settle alleged violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. The … Continue reading
8,300 Patients Notified SHREVEPORT, LA | May 17, 2013 Siemens Healthcare and Louisiana State University at Shreveport are notifying 8,330 patients of a HIPAA breach following a database mishap that resulted in billing and treatment information being mailed to the … Continue reading
On 05.13.13 by Gerry Blass and Susan Miller Background Congress had long grumbled that HIPAA enforcement had no teeth, so within the HITECH Act they mandated that the OCR develop an audit program for all CEs and BAs, of all … Continue reading
by Deanna Pogorelc As the use of mobile devices, file-sharing software and cloud services has been on the rise among healthcare providers, data breaches have been rising steadily along with them. A hefty 94 percent of healthcare organizations who participated … Continue reading
Written by: Patrick Ouellette | Date May 7, 2013 The second annual Healthcare Information Security Today survey revealed six emerging healthcare security trends. It hit on all of the key healthcare security pain points for professionals and showed … Continue reading
May 1, 2013 | By Susan D. Hall The theft of Social Security numbers provides cyber criminals a gift that keeps on giving, posing the potential for fraud for years. When Eastern European hackers gained access to healthcare information for … Continue reading
By: Patrick Ouellette, Health IT Security (A Perspective on healthcare data breaches) A common refrain among those outside the healthcare industry is that healthcare has a ways to go in catching up with the enterprise in security technology. While this … Continue reading
The authors of “Forecasting the Use of Electronic Health Records: An Expert Opinion Approach,” published in Volume 3, Issue 2 of the Medicare & Medicaid Research Review, convened a group of 18 experts from industry, academia, and government to forecast … Continue reading
Federal Privacy Officer Offers Insights The privacy and security provisions of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule and the HITECH Act electronic health record incentive program “dovetail together quite nicely,” says Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer at the HHS Office of the … Continue reading
