There 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.
Posts Tagged ‘PHI’
HIPAA & 4 Lessons From an Insider Threat Example: Former Healthcare IT Manager Hacks Into System and Deletes PHI
Monday, September 10th, 2007Confusing 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, 2007HIPAA: More Changes and Initiatives by HHS
Thursday, April 26th, 2007I’ve been reading so much about HIPAA lately; no enforcement actions yet, but a lot of changes, proposals and initiatives.
Two more I read about recently:
HIPAA: Advisory Workgroup Proposes PHI Security and Privacy Requirements Should Apply to All Organizations
Monday, April 23rd, 2007The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a Confidentiality, Privacy, and Security Workgroup, also known as the American Health Information Community, that is made up of practitioners, IT folks, lawyers and other leaders outside of the government who want a say in how protected health information (PHI) is safeguarded, shared, and otherwise handled.
