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Meaningful Use: Audit, Assessment or Analysis?
Conducting a meaningful use security risk assessment has been a requirement for HIPAA Covered entities since 2005, and now their business associates must also comply....
NY Presbyterian, Columbia University Settlement highlights importance of PHI application inventory
The recent situation at NY Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center that resulted in the largest-to-date HIPAA settlement of $4.8 Million, highlighted...
N.Y. Presbyterian, Columbia Resolution Clarify HHS Expectations for IT Asset Inventory in Largest HIPAA Settlement
The largest HIPAA settlement ever, in the amount of $4.8 Million, by two affiliated organizations, NY Presbyterian and Columbia University, sheds light on HHS...
Over 2,400 patients affected by data breach at UMass Memorial Medical
Employee misbehavior using access privileges for the purpose of identity theft has led to yet another data breach. Notice was sent to more than 2,400 patients at UMass...
4th Annual Patient Privacy and Data Security Survey Results Released by Ponemon
The Fourth Annual Patient Privacy and Data Security Survey, published in March, revealed new and expanded threats to the security and privacy of patient information in...
Boston Medical Center vendor causes data breach
Boston Medical Center, a 496-bed academic medical center in Boston, discovered a data breach on March 3 when the records of 15,000 patients were posted online by a...
Data Breach at UPMC leaked personal information of 27,000 employees
A data breach at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) originally thought to have compromised the privacy of 332 employees, may actually have over 27,000...
FBI Expects Increase in Cyber Attacks Targeting Healthcare Industry
The FBI recently issued two private industry notices (PINs) to the healthcare sector, warning that cyber-attacks against devices and systems in that industry are likely...
Windows XP Users at Risk – Upgrade now if at all possible!
Microsoft announced over the weekend that all versions of Internet Explorer have a “serious security hole” that hackers can use to take over a computer and hijack your...
Tufts Health Plan data breach affects 9,000 Medicare subscribers
Tufts Health Plan, who offers health insurance plans for Medicare Advantage, individual or group health insurance in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, announced in an...
Encryption is key to prevent healthcare security breach, per Joy Pritts
Encryption is the single most essential technology to use for healthcare security breach prevention, according to Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer at the Office of the...
Encryption with BitLocker – Protecting against Attacks
Covered entities and business associates who need to comply with HIPAA encryption standards first have some high-level planning which is addressed in the post...
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