More than 30,000 enrollees in a Medicare supplementary insurance plan from Anthem Blue Cross are being offered free credit monitoring services after they were mailed notices that apparently displayed their Social Security numbers in the envelope window.
Regulatory compliance expert Harry Rhodes says it's essential to have a formal process in place for objectively assessing whether a security incident needs to be reported as a breach.
The increase in the availability and quality of medical images is enabling healthcare providers to successfully diagnose and resolve more patient problems than ever before. The downside is the demand placed on IT organizations to retain numerous medical images with huge file sizes in a reliable, secure, scalable, and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology hopes to unveil a free HIPAA Security Rule Toolkit by December to help healthcare organizations achieve compliance.
"Raising the security awareness of your workforce is your best defense against having a breach incident," says David Holtzman, who's on the federal team that enforces the HITECH Act breach notification rule.
A batch of overdue regulations dealing with healthcare privacy and security issues will be issued in one "omnibus" rulemaking this year, but how soon remains uncertain, one federal official says.
Allina Hospitals and Clinics has fired 32 employees for inappropriately looking at the electronic health records of patients involved in a recent mass drug overdose case.
An incident recently added to the official federal list of major health information breaches offers a reminder that dental practices, as well as medical practices, must adequately protect patient records.
One of the most significant conferences of the year devoted to healthcare information security issues will be held next week in Washington, and we'll be providing full coverage.
Deven McGraw, co-chair of the Privacy and Security Tiger Team, discusses its most recent recommendations for rules and regulations and asks for suggestions on additional topics to address.
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