If you are a HIPAA-covered entity or business associate, you likely know that patient PHI may only be created, received, maintained, and transmitted as permitted by the HIPAA Security Rule
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Monitoring Legal Developments Relating to the Privacy and Security of Health Information
If you are a HIPAA-covered entity or business associate, you likely know that patient PHI may only be created, received, maintained, and transmitted as permitted by the HIPAA Security Rule…
Continue Reading Is Your Website HIPAA-Compliant?A large New York hospital system learned this lesson the expensive way. According to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) press release issued earlier this week, the…
Continue Reading One of Three $3 Million Lessons: Encrypt Mobile Devices
According to the latest HIPAA-related guidance (Guidance) published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a cloud service provider (CSP) maintaining a client’s protected health…
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The private sector is still not prepared – and generally lacks the knowledge – to respond effectively to a major cyber breach, according to 80 percent of respondents in a…
Continue Reading Lack of Preparedness and Government Access Top Data Security Agenda
Whether it was an apple or a quince, pomegranate, or some other more botanically-likely fruit growing in the Garden of Eden, God’s command in Genesis was clear: do not eat…
Continue Reading Apple, the FBI, and iPhone Encryption: A Battle of Biblical Proportions with Implications for HIPAA