News broke yesterday about a physician in Rhode Island, at the Westerly Hospital, who was sanctioned for posting protected health information (PHI) on her Facebook page: (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘security’
Health Net Incident Impacting 1.9 Million: Lessons Learned
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011Yesterday I provided some thoughts to Howard Anderson at HealthinfoSecurity.com about the recent Health Net incident for his article. Here are some expanded thoughts for his questions…
Reining In Mobile Computing Risks
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010As demonstrated over and over again over the past several years, mobile computing devices and storage media present a huge risk to business and personal information. Because of the portability of these devices, organizations are basically entrusting the security of the information stored upon them into the hands of the people using them. It is vital that an effective mobile computing device and storage media security and privacy management program is in place.
A mobile computing device and storage media security and privacy management program should be able to answer the questions: (more…)
Security and Privacy: Trends, Tools and Techniques
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009I’m in Houston this week giving my class “Security and Privacy: Trends, Tools and Techniques.”
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.
What A Nice Surprise: I’m On the IT Security List of Top 59 IT Security Influencers!
Thursday, March 15th, 2007It was quite a wonderful surprise to read an email message this morning from IT Security telling me I was put on their list of top 59 IT security influencers for 2007.
