Significant Settlements For HIPAA Breaches

TWO LESSONS FROM HIPAA BREACHES Sign a business associate agreement Run a comprehensive and accurate risk analysis Organizations responsible for the security of patient records should take note of two recent investigations and subsequent settlements announced by the...

Recycled Computers reveal Banking User and Passwords

Web browsers help you remember user names and passwords for banking accounts by keeping them in memory.  Even better, your browser will fill in passwords automatically for you. The problem arises when you donate or recycle you old computers.  The trusted charity,...

HIPAA Compliant Apple Watch

Every year the world awaits Apple’s newest releases, and this year the big reveal included one product of particular interest to the medical community. Apple Watch users will now have the capability — through a third-party app from AirStrip— to send HIPAA-compliant...

HIPAA Data Destruction – “Reasonable & Appropriate”

I’d like to add one more wake-up call to small and medium sized organizations; allowing computer  hard drives to leave your custody – usually during the decommissioning or recycling process – without physically destroying them first could be considered a data breach....

HIPAA Compliance – Breaches To Surge In 2014

Healthcare Data Breaches To Surge In 2014 (via InformationWeek) The healthcare industry will see even bigger breaches of data and patient privacy in 2014, an Experian report says. Healthcare will be a hotbed of consumer data breaches in 2014, according to an Experian...