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Cloud for healthcare presses on but is slowed by HIPAA anxiety

This post, Cloud for healthcare presses on but is slowed by HIPAA anxiety, first appeared on https://searchhealthit.techtarget.com/. Facing mounting pressure to take steps toward the healthcare cloud, hospital systems find themselves balancing modern infrastructure trends with HIPAA safeguards. Imagine a mortgage company telling a household it was too slow in moving to the cloud: Cut the cable cord and start streaming! Buy a smart speaker to order pizza! Have backyard security cameras upload footage to […]

Are your vendors HIPAA compliant? Find out before it’s too late

This post, Are your vendors HIPAA compliant? Find out before it’s too late, first appeared on https://www.dentistryiq.com/. Organizations operating within dentistry and the healthcare industry more generally face constant regulatory pressure at the federal and state levels. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), for example, sets rules relating to the safeguarding of protected health information (PHI) that significantly impact the way organizations collect, store, and transmit their patients’ medical data. Failure to abide by […]

LabCorp’s Network Security Breach May Have Exposed PHI of Millions

This post, LabCorp’s Network Security Breach May Have Exposed PHI of Millions, first appeared on https://healthitsecurity.com/. After recently dodging a legal bullet over an alleged HIPAA violation, LabCorp is now facing a network security breach that forced the North Carolina-based laboratory diagnostics firm to shut down its IT network, possibly placing PHI of millions of people at risk. By Fred Donovan July 17, 2018 – After recently dodging a legal bullet over an alleged HIPAA violation, […]

How to Ensure Your Healthcare Cloud Storage Stays HIPAA Compliant

This post, How to Ensure Your Healthcare Cloud Storage Stays HIPAA Compliant, first appeared on https://healthtechmagazine.net/. As healthcare professionals continue to embrace digital technologies to safeguard their patients’ information, there is an industrywide need to ensure digital ecosystems are compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This is particularly true as healthcare providers pivot to cloud storage, in addition to on-premises options. This move can help them prepare for precision medicine and population […]

Hospital Hit with $4.3 Million Fine for “Snail’s Pace” HIPAA Compliance

This post, Hospital Hit with $4.3 Million Fine for “Snail’s Pace” HIPAA Compliance, first appeared on https://www.jdsupra.com/. Healthcare organizations take note: not following your own data security rules can be costly, very costly. And the more time it takes to comply, the faster the fines stack up. An administrative law judge recently upheld the fourth largest HIPAA fine – a $4.3 million penalty – issued to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for not following […]

2018 HIPAA Compliance: How to Keep Your ePHI Protected

This post, 2018 HIPAA Compliance: How to Keep Your ePHI Protected, first appeared on https://healthtechmagazine.net/. There has been quite a fuss lately over offering patients greater access to their health records, particularly with the introduction of Apple’s EHR app, which promises to bring electronic health records into patients’ pockets and introduce the era of bring-your-own-data in healthcare. But often that desire to bring patients into the fold gets quashed by a fear of cybersecurity and HIPAA […]

Proactive ways to prevent improper pharmaceutical disposal

This post, Proactive ways to prevent improper pharmaceutical disposal, first appeared on https://www.mcknights.com/. As the use of pharmaceuticals in long-term care facilities increases, so does the need for proper management of its waste. With the potential to cause harm for facilities, their residents and the environment, it is imperative that LTC owners and operators understand the current regulatory environment and best practices for pharmaceutical waste. A recent Associated Press investigation found that hospitals and LTC […]

1.13M Records Exposed by 110 Healthcare Data Breaches in Q1 2018

This post, 1.13M Records Exposed by 110 Healthcare Data Breaches in Q1 2018, first appeared on https://healthitsecurity.com. Around 1.13 million patient records were compromised in 110 healthcare data breaches in the first quarter of 2018, according to data released May 3 in the Protenus Breach Barometer. Healthcare insiders were most likely to snoop on family members—a whopping 77.10 percent of privacy violations in the first quarter. Snooping on fellow co-workers was the second most common insider […]

Did EMS Worker Commit HIPAA Violation With Facebook Post?

This post, Did EMS Worker Commit HIPAA Violation With Facebook Post?, first appeared on https://healthitsecurity.com. Did an emergency medical services (EMS) worker in Roane County, Tennessee, commit a HIPAA violation with a Facebook post that described the peculiar location of an emergency response—a chicken coop? The EMS worker was part of a team that responded to a call about Leon Raymond, who had suffered a heart attack in his chicken coop. “The first responders arrived and started […]

When medical devices get hacked, hospitals often don’t know it

This post, When medical devices get hacked, hospitals often don’t know it, first appeared on http://www.healthcareitnews.com/. The threat to medical devices is real and happening now – and it’s a patient safety issue, much more than one of HIPAA compliance. The past three months have seen a record high in medical device recalls, increasing 126 percent in the first quarter of 2018 from last year, according to the Stericycle Recall Index. The biggest culprit was software, […]

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