Category: Security

A lack of proven security in the health insurance marketplaces is a key threat to patient information, according to a new report from the Ponemon Institute, which also lists criminal attacks,… read more …read more    

Healthcare organizations should be prepared to face increasing scrutiny in 2014, according to “Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Review 2013” published by Nashville, Tenn.-based law firm Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, which cites a near doubling of whistleblower lawsuits filed in the past five years and continued significant fraud recoveries by the government. Healthcare organizations should…

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) has announced that it has begun notifying patients of a data breach at Sutherland Healthcare Solutions (SHS), which handles DHS’s billing and collections. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) has announced that it has begun notifying patients of a data breach at Sutherland…

Inaction on the part of a Washington-based hospital following a notification of HIPAA non-compliance has led to the first fine of a local government by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights. read more …read more    

With the promise of remote patient monitoring technologies comes privacy and legal issues, but there is reason to be optimistic, according to Eric Topol, M.D. read more …read more    

See how Montrose Memorial Hospital has leveraged a mobility platform to prevent unauthorized e-mail access. …read more    

Attorney David Holtzman, former senior adviser at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights, expects OCR will begin its HIPAA audit program in April, and says it’s important for providers to be prepared from all angles. read more …read more    

Enabling third party organisations to supply services to individual or multiple hospitals, surgeries and clinics with greater efficiency, greater security and at lower cost …read more    

The inability of retail giants like Target and Neiman Marcus to protect customer data from an alleged foreign hacker got national attention recently. But when a large healthcare system experiences a security breach that puts the protected health information (PHI) of thousands of patients at risk, it is often the case that few outside of…

Your organization has just had a security breach and now you have to notify your management. You need to call your boss. This is never an easy call and invariably includes many difficult questions. …read more