What impact will the transition to a Donald Trump administration have on HIPAA enforcement and other healthcare privacy and security regulatory activity? Experts offer their predictions.
SecurityScorecard is out with its 2016 Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Report, and it paints a grim picture about how vulnerable healthcare entities are to socially engineered schemes. CEO Aleksandr Yampolskiy shares insight from the study.
Virtually every industry is prone to cyberattacks, online fraud and identity theft. For years' banks have secured online transactions for commercial accounts and private banking customers via multifactor authentication. Now through organizations like the NCSA and HIMSS, multifactor authentication may finally become...
The hack of health insurer Anthem exposes data on 80 million Americans. A breach of an electronic health records vendor affects dozens of clinics. A California hospital pays a ransom to get data decrypted by hackers. These and other headline-grabbing breaches are getting the attention of CEOs and boards of directors....
It's a story you'll watch unfold time and time again. The breach. The headlines. The confusion. The public apologies. The finger-pointing. And it's often followed by some form of the following statement: "But I was compliant." Compliance is never enough. The challenges are understandable, but taking the path of least...
The rising cost of pharmaceuticals is an unfortunate reality that can render patients unable to afford medication. This struggle was evident to Dr. Michael Rae who created the Rx Savings Solutions app that helps consumers save on prescription costs. Dr. Rae is a medical expert, but since technology is not his forte,...
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) began a search for a secure cloud solution for their Common Security Framework (CSF) application. CSF gives businesses the structure, detail and clarity needed to more efficiently and effectively meet healthcare regulatory compliance standards, including HIPAA.
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To help simplify the difficulties associated with HIPAA compliance, the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), a non-profit organization, collaborated with leaders in healthcare and information security to develop the HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF). CSF is a certifiable security framework that scales...
A new watchdog agency report says HHS needs to provide much more guidance on how healthcare organizations should implement controls identified by the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. But some security experts are calling for bolder action - an update of the HIPAA Security Rule.
Why are hacked healthcare records so valuable? It's because stolen patient records often end up for sale on the deep web as part of information packages called "fullz" and "identity kits" used by fraudsters to commit a wide variety of crimes, says James Scott of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology.
B. Vindell Washington, M.D., the new head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, pledges that the agency's top priority of advancing standards-based interoperable, secure health data exchange will continue under his leadership. But what will happen once a new president is elected?
How do companies in the healthcare industry better manage risk and keep their most valuable data safe when stolen healthcare information commands such a high price on the dark web? Download the case study, "Proactively Challenge Cyber Threats in the Healthcare Industry," to learn how this healthcare organization...
A Florida healthcare provider that treated victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre in June is notifying patients impacted by a breach involving record snooping. The incident spotlights common privacy and security challenges.
Granular patient consent policies - adopted despite HIPAA allowing certain data to be shared without explicit patient consent - can lead to less data being exchanged by healthcare entities, says researcher Julia Adler Milstein of the University of Michigan, who describes results of a new study.
A former Fla. hospital worker has been sentenced to federal prison in a case involving criminal HIPAA violations and tax fraud. Although the prosecution of HIPAA-related crimes are still rare, some experts say such cases could be on the rise.
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