Blog Posts Tagged with "HIPAA"
Conducting Secure Transactions On-the-go with VPNs
March 20, 2013 Added by:Patrick Oliver Graf
The safeguarding of private customer information has become a top priority for many organizations, thanks in no small part to government regulation and industry oversight, as we move toward an increasingly digital world.
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Fly First Class But Pay Economy for HIPAA Compliance
January 22, 2013 Added by:Danny Lieberman
After the sanity check with the team that constructed the threat scenarios, you and your HIPAA consultant need to calculate your Value at Risk. Calculating VaR will help shed light on where to save money and where to spend money...
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Using brainware to store patient data and ensure patient privacy
October 16, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
If pharmaceutical companies can access data from patients, then they can design and manufacture better products. This is good for patient health but problematic for current regulation of patient privacy. There is no such thing as patient privacy once big commercial ventures like large pharmas get involved...
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Auditing Healthcare IT Security with Multiple Threat Scenarios
October 10, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
For small to mid-size hospitals, nursing homes, medical device, healthcare IT vendors will have a much simpler audit and will be primarily interested in how cheaply the audit can be done and how much they can save using the technique of multiple threat analysis...
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Friends and Family Breach Patient Privacy, Not Estonian Hackers
September 17, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Humans being are naturally curious, sometimes vindictive and always worried when it comes to the health condition of friends and family. Being human, they will bend rules to get information and in the course of bending rules, breach patient privacy...
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Ultimate Breach of Patient Privacy: Real-Time Death on Video
August 29, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
As social media becomes part of the continuum of interaction in the physical and virtual worlds, privacy becomes an issue of discretionary disclosure control. Online privacy and patient privacy will evolve into a market for products and services with stratified pricing, packaging and product positioning...
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Lack of Basic Security Practices Results in $1.7 Million Sanction
July 02, 2012 Added by:Rebecca Herold
“This is OCR’s first HIPAA action against a state agency and we expect organizations to comply with their obligations under these rules regardless of whether they are private or public entities.” Bottom line for all organizations of all sizes: It is wise to learn from the pain of others...
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NIST Workshop: Safeguarding Health Information
May 30, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The HIPAA Security Rule sets federal standards to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of electronic protected health information by requiring HIPAA covered entities and their business associates to implement and maintain administrative, physical and technical safeguards...
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How to Secure Patient Data in a Healthcare Organization
May 23, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
If you are a HIPAA covered entity, securing patient data is central to your business. If you are a big organization, you probably don’t need my advice. If you are small to mid-size provider without a large budget, the question is “How can I do this for as little money as possible?”
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Healthcare Data and the (Private) Social Network
May 09, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Previously, we talked about the roles that trust, security and privacy play in online healthcare interactions. In this post we look at privacy challenges in social networks and describes how you can implement a private healthcare social network for without government regulation...
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Encryption: Myths and Must Knows
April 11, 2012 Added by:Rebecca Herold
Small to medium sized businesses have legal obligations to protect sensitive information, such as personally identifiable information. Here are some of the common long-held myths related to encryption misconceptions...
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NIST: Technical Guidance for Evaluating Electronic Health Records
April 03, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
“This guidance can be a useful tool for EHR developers to demonstrate that their systems don’t lead to use errors... It will provide a way for developers and evaluators to objectively assess how easy their EHR systems are to learn and operate, while maximizing efficiency...”
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Is a W-2 Considered PHI Under HIPAA?
March 25, 2012 Added by:Rebecca Herold
The question was framed as meaning the entire W-2 form was being “submitted” for financial assistance to pay for healthcare, so with this in mind, we will consider it as one document containing several information items that are necessarily grouped together...
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The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information
March 07, 2012 Added by:Marjorie Morgan
The ISA and ANSI released a new report titled The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information which explores the reputational, financial, legal, operational, and clinical repercussions of a protected health information breach on an organization...
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Four Keys for Intellectual Property Protection
February 07, 2012 Added by:Jason Clark
Intellectual property includes product designs, secret formulas, and other trade knowledge. It's what organized cybercrime, state governments and hackers are all going after. Why? Mostly because of the value. One stolen manufacturing process can be worth millions...
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Compliance and Security Trends
January 29, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Information security and risk analysis is complex stuff, with multiple dimensions of people, software, performance, management, technology, assets, threats, vulnerabilities and control relationships. This is why it’s hard to sell security to organizations...
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