The High Cost of HIPAA Privacy Violations
By Danny Lieberman, Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates
Data security vendors like Mcafee, IBM, Fidelis Security, Symantec, Verdasys, Reconnex, Vericept, Raytheon, Websense and Checkpoint have written thousands of white papers on how their data security products can help an organization be HIPAA compliant, but log-management cannot mitigate dumpster-diving, nor can it prevent bulk database dumps and file transfer.
ISR News: HIPAA and Your Health Records
Excerpts From Search Security
Healthcare is unique in that storage of electronic health records is highly distributed between primary care physicians, specialist doctors, hospitals, and insurance/HMO organizations. Information has to be efficiently shared among these entities with great sensitivity towards patient privacy and legitimate claims processing. Patients want to prevent over zealous employers from performing unauthorized background checks on medical history; claim processors want to prevent paying fraudulent claims arising from targeted patient identity theft.
ISR News: HIPAA Has New Teeth
Excerpts From SearchSecurity.com
CVS Caremark Corp has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a federal investigation into allegations that it violated HIPAA privacy regulations when pharmacy employees threw items such as pill bottles with patient information into the trash.
