Healthcare Breach
Medical industry compliance issues and regulatory trends
As far as data security goes, 2011 was a dismal year. Relentless, high-profile breaches punctured any sense that hack attacks are a remote threat,...
All data breaches have two things in common: the need for prompt resolution and the need for a robust preparedness plan....
According to Ponemon Institute’s Second Annual Survey on Medical Identity Theft, we estimate that more than 1.49 million Americans have been targeted by this...
Today's headlines trumpet yet another high-profile medical data breach, this time through Health Net. This corporate catastrophe reminds us of the increasing hazard of...
The proliferation of state data breach notification laws, substantive state information security laws (such as the Massachusetts data security standards), and FTC and private...
While state laws requiring “reasonable” data security have had a positive impact, data breach notification laws have had the most profound effect on the...
A few weeks ago I discussed a few preventative measures a healthcare business can implement to protect itself from the damages of medical fraud. ...
Medical fraud is occurring at an alarming rate and is expected to cost the US healthcare system $100 billion a year. Medical fraudsters vary...
Legislation has been introduced in Congress to crack down on Medicare and Medicaid fraud. This legislation comes at a time when incidents of medical...
Recently I addressed the importance of having plans in place to protect personal health information in light of the sharp increase in healthcare data...
Just as the healthcare industry came up to speed on the regulations defined in The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ("HITECH")...