It seems there are more and more stories related to patient privacy and HIPAA popping up lately. Today another story caught my eye related to them.
Posts Tagged ‘HIPAA’
HIPAA, The Insider Threat & Prison Time
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Another Hospital Suspends Staff For Violating HIPAA Requirements
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Ivinson Memorial Hospital applying sanctions to their staff for violating HIPAA requirements.
They have set a good example…another hospital has also applied sanctions…suspending 27 of their staff members for violating HIPAA requirements.
Why Would You Trust Microsoft To Store Your Sensitive Health Information?
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Today Microsoft launched their new web portal, HealthVault to store, for free, “medical histories, immunization and other records from doctors’ offices and hospital visits, including data from devices like heart monitors. It is also tied to a health information search engine the software maker launched last month.”
A Hospital Actively Enforcing HIPAA Requirements!
Saturday, September 29th, 2007It is great to see a story published about a hospital, actually any type of organization that is a covered entity (CE), that is actively and seriously trying to be in compliance with HIPAA requirements.
The First Ever HIPAA Audit: Where’s The Report? Does It Have Beef?
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Gosh, I just had a flashback to the “Where’s the Beef” commercial from years ago… 🙂
The U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule went into effect in April, 2001, and gave covered entities (CEs) two years to get into compliance. The HIPAA Security Rule went into effect in April 2003 and CEs had until April 2005 to get into compliance.
HIPAA & 4 Lessons From an Insider Threat Example: Former Healthcare IT Manager Hacks Into System and Deletes PHI
Monday, September 10th, 2007There are so many ways in which bad things can happen with the authorized access personnel and business partners have to sensitive data, personally identifiable information (PII), and business systems. Many times the bad things that happen are a result of a lack of awareness of how to properly protect information, a result of mistakes, or a result of malicious intent. Here is just one more example to add to your file of actual insider threat incidents.
HIPAA & 4 Lessons From an Insider Threat Example: Former Healthcare IT Manager Hacks Into System and Deletes PHI
Monday, September 10th, 2007There are so many ways in which bad things can happen with the authorized access personnel and business partners have to sensitive data, personally identifiable information (PII), and business systems. Many times the bad things that happen are a result of a lack of awareness of how to properly protect information, a result of mistakes, or a result of malicious intent. Here is just one more example to add to your file of actual insider threat incidents.
Confusing Folks: PHR, PHI, PII, NPPI, and Dozens of Other Acronyms…It’s Still All Personal Information
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007I really enjoy reading survey results. I can’t help myself. Whether the surveys are well-done, sloppy, long, short, statistically accurate or obviously statistically invalid, I still find them interesting. Especially when they cover what the general public and non-IT/non-infosec person thinks or knows about information security and privacy, or some industry-specific issue.
HIPAA Violation in Divorce Proceeding?
Friday, July 13th, 2007Laws, Standards, Mapping, and HIPAA
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Today is the last day of Norwich University’s Masters programs residency week; this afternoon is graduation.
It has been a great week…I have loved chatting with the students and faculty, and I’ve compiled a page full of topics I want to research and blog about!
