HIPAA
Understanding Data Encryption Requirements for GDPR, CCPA, LGPD & HIPAA
Take a proactive approach towards your organization’s security and compliance by gaining a greater understanding of current industry regulations for the GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and HIPAA regarding encryption In this... The post ...
The Easy Way to HIPAA Compliant Password Security
When a data breach occurs, the loss of personally identifiable information can be very costly not only as an inconvenience[…] The post The Easy Way to HIPAA Compliant Password Security appeared first ...
Collaborating to Treat Chronic Conditions
Working with patients that have multiple chronic conditions can be challenging. It may mean that the patient has multiple doctors he or she is regularly dependent on—such as a cardiologist to control ...
HIPAA & Employee Password Policies
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) describes how organizations must keep protected health information (PHI) secure. So how exactly are employee passwords supposed to be handled in light of HIPAA? ...
Billions of Medical Images Leaked in Huge Privacy Puzzle
Security researchers say healthcare providers are failing to secure mind boggling amounts of highly sensitive patient medical data ...
Rebecca Herold “The Privacy Professor”
In episode 95 of our monthly show we’re joined by special guest Rebecca Herold, the “Privacy Professor”. Rebecca is a well known expert in the privacy and cybersecurity community and gives us ...
Five “W’s” for Vulnerability Management
As we wind down 2019, it is a great time to think about your vulnerability management plans for the coming year. The five W’s can help guide our efforts as we resolve ...
How Artificial Intelligence will Affect Patient Data Protection
Following the successful introduction of Alexa’s healthcare services earlier this year, Amazon has announced that its AI, Textract, is now HIPAA eligible. Textract offers a machine learning service that scans healthcare-related texts ...
Google Slurps 150 Hospitals’ Patient Data With No Consent
Project Nightingale has been revealed as a secret Google operation to store and manipulate the healthcare data of millions of patients. Nobody consented ...
Texas HHS Commission Penalized $1.6M for HIPAA Violations
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (TX HHS) must pay a civil penalty of $1.6 million for having violated HIPAA. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of ...
