U.S. healthcare companies must comply with the data security and privacy standards defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The purpose of the legislation is to safeguard the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI) and electronic protected health information (ePHI). Failure to comply with HIPAA regulations can result in serious financial fines and reputational damage.
What Determines HIPAA Compliance?
Organizations
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HIPAA Security Rule
Cybersecurity: Is SOC2 Worth The Hype for Healthcare Organizations?
The healthcare industry has always been a prominent target for cybercriminals worldwide. They can access high-value patient PHI/PII data and use it maliciously to disrupt the patient’s treatment routine and bring down uptime, which is critical. It has repercussions on patients, doctors, hospitals, and everything associated with the healthcare ecosystem.
Information security is a reason for concern for all organizations, including those that outsource key business operations to third-party
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Google-Ascension: Why Is HIPAA Probably Not Being Violated?
- Various arrangements between Google and systems including the Mayo Clinic, University of Chicago, and Ascension draw concern and fears of Google just taking multitudes of personal information about thousands or millions of individuals.
- Despite the most common statement being that Google is stepping around HIPAA, the most likely answer is that Google (and really many other technology-based vendors) can receive the data as a business associate.
- Why is HIPAA probably not being violated?
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HIPAA Audits: A 5 Step Survival Guide for Healthcare Providers
This post is sponsored by Compliancy Group LLC.
If you ask any health IT security professional today about what keeps them up at night, a full-scale data breach is probably at the top of the list. With regulatory fines in the millions and data breach notification/mitigation costs at even higher amounts, data breaches represent one of the greatest financial risks that healthcare providers contend with today. And in light of the new HIPAA Omnibus Rules, health IT vendors now face some of the
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Smart & Safe: Consumer Technology in the Healthcare Enterprise
Contributed by Carl Cresswell, CTO at Clinithink on consumer technology in the healthcare enterprise
In recent years, the technology landscape has been dominated by innovations aimed at consumers. Instant Messaging (IM), Voice Over IP (VOIP), smartphones and social networking have become universally available and transformed the way many of us communicate with friends, family and even colleagues. The result is a growing expectation among the “tech savvy” that such technology is not only
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