Mitigating Employee Lawsuit Exposure
By Ike Z. Devji, J.D. – Executive Vice-President, The Wealthy 100
American business owners are 5 times more likely to be sued by an employee than for any other reason, and employees win 75% of the time. The problem with the stock arbitration clauses in most employee agreements is that they are unenforceable because they lack the specificity required by the courts, and the same is true of the majority of dispute resolution policies.
Sensitive Data and the Pharmacy Industry
By Kat Sanders of Pharmacy Technician Certification
There is a surfeit of Information today, and although we have come up with ways and means to store them for eternity, we are still not able to ensure their security. Information is valuable only as long as it remains protected, and once in the hands of people who are likely to misuse it, it turns into a recipe for disaster.
ISR News: A Wireless Hacker’s Paradise
Excerpts From SecurityFocus
“We thought wireless was mature enough that people should understand the security issues,” Baglietto said. “But we saw a lot of open access points, a lot of identities being leaked, and a lot of insecure installations.”
ISR News: TD Ameritrade Settles Breach Suit
Excerpts From Associated Press
More than 6 million current and former customers of online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. will be able to benefit from the settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed over the theft of client contact information.
ISR News: New HIPAA Security Rules Issued
Excerpts From AAFP.org
According to provisions in the legislation, physicians now will be required to track any disclosure of a patient’s medical information. Previous regulations allowed physicians to disclose patient information for the purpose of treatment, payment or health care operations, but they were not required to track when that information was disclosed.
HIPAA Privacy & Security Update Webinar
Press Release:
Catch up on the latest amendments, enforcement trends and other HIPAA Privacy & Data Security Rule developments by participating in the “HIPAA Privacy & Security Update Teleconference” on March 25, 2009 hosted by Solutions Law Press. Learn what you and your organization need to know to comply with new requirements and manage HIPAA compliance while getting valuable training that will help your organization document its efforts to comply with HIPAA’s training requirements.
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.
