Archive for June 5th, 2017

Giving a Speech? Be Careful About Privacy Violations

Giving a Speech? Be Careful About Privacy Violations

This post, Giving a Speech? Be Careful About Privacy Violations, first appeared on http://www.govinfosecurity.com/. Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • June 2, 2017 A recent speech by a health insurance company executive is stirring up debate about whether a patient’s privacy can be violated even if the patient’s name is never revealed. An executive from health insurer WellMark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa, in a speech at a local Rotary Club meeting, tried to illustrate […]

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Health Care: Cybersecurity in an Insecure World

Health Care: Cybersecurity in an Insecure World

This post, Health Care: Cybersecurity in an Insecure World, first appeared on http://www.thelegalintelligencer.com/. June 6, 2017 | Melanie Bork Graham 
and Leeza Garber, The Legal Intelligencer We are currently witnessing the most expansive digitization of health care in history (Professor Jonathan Weiner, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, September 26, 2014; Graham, M.B., Thomas Jefferson School of Population Health Capstone Proposal, July 2016). The national push to digitize comes with new regulatory standards for securing data […]

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