Posts Tagged ‘Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’

Insider Threat Examples & 7th HIPAA Criminal Conviction

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Yesterday I read about the 7th criminal conviction and sentencing that has been given under HIPAA, “Woman gets 14 months in ID theft case.”

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HIPAA Humor: Dumb Robber

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Here’s a story that gave me a bit of a chuckle, “Note leads police to robbery arrest“…

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7 More Reasons Why Sending Cleartext IM and Email Is *NOT* Secure Even If Your Doc Says It Is…Part 2

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

As a continuation of my blog posting from Monday, here are 7 additional reasons to add to the previous 4 for why sending cleartext instant messages (IMs) and email is not secure:

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Sending Cleartext IM and Email Is *NOT* Secure Even If Your Doc Says It Is…Part 1

Monday, November 19th, 2007

I got some interesting comments and questions, and lots of good direct feedback, about my blog post on sending cleartext patient information last week, “HIPAA: Beware Doctors Who Claim They Don’t Have To Follow Safeguard and Privacy Requirements” so I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss the topic a little more.

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Sending Cleartext IM and Email Is *NOT* Secure Even If Your Doc Says It Is…Part 1

Monday, November 19th, 2007

I got some interesting comments and questions, and lots of good direct feedback, about my blog post on sending cleartext patient information last week, “HIPAA: Beware Doctors Who Claim They Don’t Have To Follow Safeguard and Privacy Requirements” so I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss the topic a little more.

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HIPAA: Beware Doctors Who Claim They Don’t Have To Follow Safeguard and Privacy Requirements

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

My good friend Alec recently made me aware of a very interesting blog post made by a physician (thanks Alec!) that is frankly quite troubling.

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