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.
ISR News: Government Under Cyber Attack
Excerpts From USA Today’s Peter Eisler
“Government systems are under constant attack,” says Joel Brenner, counterintelligence chief in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. “We’re seeing … a dramatic, consistent increase in cyber crime (and) intelligence activities.”
ISR News: Lax Los Alamos Security
Excerpts From GCN.com’s William Jackson
Los Alamos thefts show that you can’t separate physical security from cyber security. The National Nuclear Security Administration recently dressed down Los Alamos National Security LLC (LANS), the contractor responsible for security at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, for its apparent mishandling of computer thefts from the weapons lab.
