Many have been asking lately if the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights has been effective in carrying out its HIPAA enforcement role. The question is a fair one.
A free webinar June 15 will address healthcare information privacy and security issues for financial institutions that process protected health information.
The federal list of major healthcare information breaches that have occurred since September 2009 didn't grow much in the past month. The list now includes 272 cases affecting a total of almost 10.9 million individuals.
The timing of two new watchdog reports that highlight the need to protect the security of electronic health records could help build momentum for action, some observers say.
Hearing at a Senate Commerce subcommittee addresses smartphone apps that collect consumers whereabouts even though those application don't need to know the users locations to function.
The threat landscape has evolved dramatically over the past several years, and now it's time for healthcare security leaders to step up and meet the new challenges involved with securing critical data.
More than 30,000 enrollees in a Medicare supplementary insurance plan from Anthem Blue Cross are being offered free credit monitoring services after they were mailed notices that apparently displayed their Social Security numbers in the envelope window.
Regulatory compliance expert Harry Rhodes says it's essential to have a formal process in place for objectively assessing whether a security incident needs to be reported as a breach.
Payment card fraud is a reality the industry is learning to deal with, through stronger analytical tools and transaction monitoring, financial experts says.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology hopes to unveil a free HIPAA Security Rule Toolkit by December to help healthcare organizations achieve compliance.
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