by Katie Pellegrino | Jun 13, 2017 | General News, Health Information Technology
Molina Healthcare, a leading Medicaid and Affordable Care Act insurer across 12 states, recently suffered a security breach in which patient records were exposed on their online subscriber portal. The application flaw, which was present on the web for nearly a month... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Aug 25, 2014 | General News, HIPAA
HIPAA Security’s 42 requirements, many of which are merely one sentence in length, understandably result in many questions for organizations seeking to comply. To resolve some of this ambiguity, the HHS Office of Civil Rights, in April 2009, issued guidance to... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Aug 24, 2014 | General News, HIPAA
The HIPAA Security Rule include two separate implementation specifications involving encryption. The first is contained at 45 CFR 164.312(a)(2)(iv): “Encryption and decryption (Addressable). Implement a mechanism to encrypt and decrypt electronic protected... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 11, 2014 | HIPAA
Many healthcare organizations remain unaware that the Heartbleed bug can affect more than just websites and web servers. The bug, discovered separately by Neel Mehta and his team from Google Security in late March and later by Finnish security firm Codenomicon in... Read More
by Gary Pritts | May 22, 2014 | HIPAA
Incidents of lost and stolen assets are amount the most common causes of data loss or exposure, as reported by data breach incidents analyzed in Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report. This recent study collected data on over 63,000 confirmed security... Read More
