By Mary Mosquera
With the sweeping use of mobile devices by healthcare providers, physicians and hospitals need to embrace best practices for protecting sensitive patient data, privacy experts say. For example, encrypt sensitive data when it is necessary to store on wireless devices.
Sixty-four percent of physicians own a smartphone and one third of them have an [...]
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the most challenging information security regulation for businesses to implement, according to a survey by IT management products firm Ipswitch.
According to an Ipswitch survey of 100,000 network administrators, 38.2% said that HIPAA was the most challenging information security regulation to implement, followed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act [...]
According to an estimates, the Healthcare in US may be vulnerable to $6 billion annually from data losses in various forms.
A survey done by the privacy and data-management firm Ponemon Institute found that Healthcare organizations are still using primitive data management techniques and run the risk of spending an average of US $1 [...]
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By Mary Mosquera
Last year’s HITECH Act toughened the rules and enforcement penalties health information handlers must follow to protect patient privacy.
Under the new policy regime, providers will have to pay more attention to the confidentiality and safety of patient information as they move more of their operations toward electronic health record-keeping.
Without [...]
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By Tom Murphy
INDIANAPOLIS – WellPoint Inc. has notified 470,000 individual insurance customers that medical records, credit card numbers and other sensitive information may have been exposed in the latest security breach of the health insurer’s records.
The Indianapolis company said the problem stemmed from an online program customers can use to track the progress [...]
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The Health & Human Services Department published draft guidance to help healthcare providers and payers figure out what is expected of them in doing a risk analysis of their protected patient health information.
The security rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires that providers, payment plans and their [...]
By Margaret Collins BLOOMBERG NEWS
Sierra Morgan was billed $12,000 on her health care credit card in November for liposuction, a procedure she never requested or received.
“It’s depressing to know that someone used my name and knows so much about me,” said Morgan, 31, a respiratory therapist from Modesto, Calif.
There were more than 275,000 cases in [...]
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The Associated Press
Posted: 04/06/2010 08:31:15 AM PDT
WALNUT CREEK, Calif.—More than 5,000 patients in the John Muir hospital system have been warned of a potential security breach after two laptop computers that contained personal and health information were stolen.
The laptops were stolen from a perinatal office in Walnut Creek in February. [...]
by Marcia Savage
The health care industry was buzzing with the news: For the first time ever, a hospital was being audited for compliance with HIPAA security requirements. The audit of Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general in 2007 was surprising for hospitals, health insurers and others [...]
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The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO—The medical records of more than 4,000 patients at the University of California, San Francisco may have been compromised after a laptop they were on was stolen.
Officials with the university said Wednesday the laptop was recovered earlier this month after it was taken from a medical school employee during a [...]
