If your company is a covered entity or a business associate, you face unique challenges when workforce members ask or are required to work from home. Hopefully, your company’s HIPAA Security Policies and Procedures address the use of portable devices, whether they are owned by the employer or by the employee, and your HIPAA security
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“Digital Quarantine” or Vaccination? What Cybersecurity Experts Can Learn from Health Care
By Elizabeth Litten on
Posted in Health IT, Privacy & Security
Perhaps the health care industry has a cybersecurity solution staring us in the face: vaccines. Perhaps we should be trying to vaccinate our data storage systems rather than relying on firewalls to quarantine them. In an article posted on www.philly.com, Associated Press author Youkyung Lee says cybersecurity defense has traditionally been based “on the idea…
Fox Rothschild to Participate at NIST and CMS Security Rule Conference
By Fox Rothschild LLP on
Posted in Speaking Engagements & Conferences
As HITECH refocuses the health care industry’s attention on security, the role of National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) in developing standards for health information security will become more center stage.
On May 18, 2009, Fox Rothschild LLP will present at the NIST and CMS Security Rule Conference in Gaithersburg, Maryland called: “Safeguarding …