HIPAA Security
HIPAA Security is vital in healthcare. Eagle writes about breaches and ways to protect yourself.
Eagle works with clients in healthcare and healthcare business associates to ensure HIPAA Security compliance. We provide a set of policy templates for a variety of business associate types including Cloud Vendors, Third Party Administrators, and Information Technology companies.
Molina Healthcare Online Breach Shows Need for Web Application Security
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
Data Breach at Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery Practice Highlights Need for Internal Audit and Physical Security
Approximately 15,000 documents of patients from 16 states and five countries were breached and stolen by a disgruntled employee of an LA based plastic surgery center. We review steps you can take to protect yourself from similar breaches.
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HHS issues Guidance regarding HIPAA and Cloud Computing
Healthcare organizations are increasingly using cloud computing vendors for electronic records, billing and revenue cycle management, file sharing, backup, and a wide variety of other functions — and HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released important new guidance for these companies.
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Preventing and Mitigating Ransomware Attacks
Recently, entire hospital networks have been shut down for time periods between 3 days and 3 weeks due to ransomware attacks. What can be done? Fortunately, there are established best practices which can prevent one of these attacks in the first place, or reduce the impact if a network is infected. We have some advice for you.
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