Blog Posts Tagged with "HITECH"
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: 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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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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Healthcare Data Interoperability Pain
January 18, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Imagine vendor-neutral, standard middleware for EHR applications that would expose data for patients and doctors using an encrypted Atom protocol – very simple, very easy to implement, easy to secure and with very clear privacy boundaries...
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Security and the Theory of Constraints
January 16, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Security management is tricky. It’s not only about technical controls and good software development practice. It’s also about management responsibility. If you remember the Theory of Constraints, there is only one thing that limits a system's (or company's) performance...
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Is Healthcare IT Security on Life Support?
January 13, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
As costs pile up from beaches, innovation suffers. Ask someone who runs a hospital network - the true cost of innovation slow-down can be counted in lives. Maybe I'm being a little dramatic, but I suspect this is closer to reality than we'd like to admit to ourselves...
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Do Subpoenas Trump HIPAA or Trample Security of PHI?
January 12, 2012 Added by:Rebecca Herold
I’ve spoken to many business leaders over the years, and most have gotten serious about ensuring safeguards are in place when putting their signatures on attestations and other types of legally binding documents. So, you need to have documented procedures in place...
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Medical Device Security
December 27, 2011 Added by:Danny Lieberman
A threat analysis was performed on a medical device used in intensive care units. The analysis considers the security implications of deploying the devices inside a hospital network. Different stakeholders have different security and compliance concerns and therefore different agendas...
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HIPAA Security Rule Toolkit Available from NIST
December 21, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"The NIST HIPAA Security Toolkit Application is intended to help organizations better understand the requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule, implement those requirements, and assess those implementations in their operational environment..."
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Are Your Health Records at Risk?
December 14, 2011 Added by:Christopher Burgess
Have we now arrived at the point in obtaining medical care that in addition to looking into the medical practitioner's experience and confirming they are compliant with HIPAA, that we now must review their data handling policies before choosing a health care provider?
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Healthcare Data Breach Response Best Practices
October 30, 2011 Added by:Christine Arevalo
Taking a PHI inventory, establishing an Incident Response Plan, meeting patients' real needs, and looking for the positive aspects of a data breach can all reflect your culture of commitment and caring. And that's the best practice of all...
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HHS to Start Auditing For HIPAA Compliance
September 14, 2011 Added by:Emmett Jorgensen
Despite both HIPAA and the HiTECH Act, healthcare data breaches have been popping up regularly. A recent study found over 70% of hospitals had data breaches last year. This has generated concern over Healthcare’s adoption of security procedures and the overall effectiveness of HIPAA...
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Privacy and Security Policies: A HIPAA-HITECH Checklist
July 24, 2011 Added by:Jack Anderson
"An important component of preparing for a potential HIPAA compliance audit is to complete a walk-through to make sure privacy and security policies and procedures are practical and effective..."
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Patient Data: The Crown Jewels
July 21, 2011 Added by:Christopher Burgess
When the first five months provides a rate of one million records a month in lost patient data, by year’s end five percent of the US population will have had their medical records compromised. We have no choice but to take action now and keep the second half of 2011 from replicating the first...
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UCLA Health System Pays $865K to Settle HIPAA Violations
July 10, 2011 Added by:Rebecca Herold
“Covered entities need to realize that HIPAA privacy protections are real and OCR vigorously enforces those protections. Entities will be held accountable for employees who access protected health information to satisfy their own personal curiosity..."
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HIPAA: Rx For End-User Device Risks
July 06, 2011 Added by:Konrad Fellmann
Basically, if electronic PHI data is encrypted, purged, or physically destroyed before it is inadvertently disclosed, then it doesn’t count as a breach. If the information is protected in a way that it can’t be obtained by an unauthorized individual then you’re safe...
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