Posted by admin on January 13, 2012
If you’re in the healthcare field, you can expect that 2012 will bring more complications when it comes to data security: increased risks, increased regulatory expectations and greater reputation fallout for breaches. According to these predictions for 2012 in healthcare data, healthcare data breaches could reach “epidemic proportions” unless action is taken. Here is a [...]
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Tags: Class Action Litigation, Computing, Data Breaches, Data Security, Epidemic Proportions, Fallout, Healthcare Data, Healthcare Field, Hipaa, Liability Risks, Mobile Device, Regulatory Expectations, Reliance, Reputation | 
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Posted by admin on February 26, 2011
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act became effective in February of 2009. According to new data, looking at dates between September 2009 – 2010, 4.9 million patients had their personal health information compromised as a result of 166 data breaches. Though the HITECH act was put in place to encourage [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: 5 Million, Business Associates, Clinical Health, Data Breach, Data Breaches, Ehrs, First Three Months, Health Information Technology, Health Records, Healthcare Data, Healthcare Organizations, Hipaa, Laptop, Laptops, Personal Health, Primary Source, Privacy Requirements, Risk Assessments, Safety Health, Security Policies | No Comments »
Posted by admin on October 1, 2010
David Sherry, CIO at Brown University, has contributed a great article to SearchSecurity on “How to build a toolset to avoid Web 2.0 security issues.” The article addresses the growing benefits of web 2.0 tools in the enterprise which must be balanced against increasingly complex security issues. In particular, the article looks at how to [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Adequate Coverage, Brown University, Complex Security, Data Loss Prevention, Data Security, Databases, Elements, Employment Opportunities, Harassment, Hipaa, Insider Trading, Regulatory Mandates, Security Issues, Sensitive Data, Sherry, Speed Accuracy, Statistical Analysis, Toolset, Using Regular Expressions, Web Tools | No Comments »
Posted by admin on July 30, 2010
As we previously mentioned, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed the first HIPAA-related lawsuit. That lawsuit has now been settled, also a first. The settlement agreement [PDF] between the State of Connecticut and the defendants (Health Net) is the result of the loss of a computer disk drive that had unencrypted health information for 1.5 [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: 5 Million, Absolute Software, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Computer Disk Drive, Connecticut Attorney General, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Data Breaches, Financial Payments, Health Information, Health Net, Health Plans, Hipaa, Identity Theft Insurance, Insurance, Pdf, Privacy Law, Security Measures, Security Whitepaper, Settlement Agreement, State Of Connecticut | No Comments »
