Protect Data Exported from EMR/EHR Systems

Patient information is secure while inside your health information system, but may be lost, stolen or inadvertently distributed to unauthorized people when you download it into a spreadsheet or PDF. If you print PHI or other sensitive information from an EMR or EHR system, you can have the same problem. In a busy clinical setting, it’s easy to misplace paperwork as you try to mange patient health. Doctors, nurses and administrators store patient notes,...

Patient information is secure while inside your health information system, but may be lost, stolen or inadvertently distributed to unauthorized people when you download...

Spring seems to finally be here and if you are heading to Chicago for HIMSS15, it’s time to think about what you want to see and learn while you are there. If you have been following healthcare headlines the last few months, you know that information security is a big topic with major data breaches at Anthem, Premera Blue Cross and others. Whether you are a hospital, clinic, lab, insurance company or other provider,...

Spring seems to finally be here and if you are heading to Chicago for HIMSS15, it’s time to think about what you want to...

A recent data breach study estimates that breaches cost the healthcare industry about $5.6 billion annually. As healthcare moves toward more connected care, the amount of data exchanged between organizations will only grow. This is exacerbated by more consumers entering the market because of healthcare reform and the frequency with which patients need to exchange information among numerous providers. This area is a rich target for anyone intent on stealing PHI for financial gain. ...

A recent data breach study estimates that breaches cost the healthcare industry about $5.6 billion annually. As healthcare moves toward more connected care, the...

Effective August 1, 2015, insurance carriers that issue health insurance in New Jersey must use encryption or other technology that renders personal information unreadable, undecipherable, or unusable by unauthorized persons when compiling or maintaining computerized records that include personal information. Password protection is inadequate to comply with this law, known as Senate Bill 562 or S562. The New Jersey legislature unanimously enacted S562 in response to heightened public concern about privacy and security issues....

Effective August 1, 2015, insurance carriers that issue health insurance in New Jersey must use encryption or other technology that renders personal information unreadable,...

HIPAA violations can be very expensive. It can cost an organization up to $50,000 per violation and is based on how negligent you are. A violation can be losing or compromising a single healthcare record. Multiply that by a few thousand or more and it can be a major hit to your bottom line. There is a sliding scale of penalties based on the level of negligence with a maximum penalty of $1.5 million...

HIPAA violations can be very expensive. It can cost an organization up to $50,000 per violation and is based on how negligent you are. ...

I don’t know how much more we can continue talking about healthcare data breaches. This is again a multi week of data breaches in the healthcare industry, and again over and over. With Anthem Inc. and then again with Premera Blue Cross, and Advantage Dental, all announced they had data breaches, however nothing about if there data was encrypted. How can 80 million and then 11 million then finally 150,000 patient records all in...

I don’t know how much more we can continue talking about healthcare data breaches. This is again a multi week of data breaches in...

IT security is a growing threat for businesses of every industry and no organization can be seen as safe. Hackers are learning new methods to attack web sites and networks. Most of the time employees have easy access to company information and are often unaware of how to detect and prevent these breaches because of a lack of training or lack of security for this information. The question is not if, but when will...

IT security is a growing threat for businesses of every industry and no organization can be seen as safe. Hackers are learning new...

Following the biggest data breach yet this year, with over 80 million Americans patient records being exposed from Anthem, the healthcare industry reputation for data security is at an all-time low. All of last year there were issues with insider threats, from malicious to accidental. To add on to this, there are now reports that it was email that was used to get into the Anthem network and steal all that data. The data...

Following the biggest data breach yet this year, with over 80 million Americans patient records being exposed from Anthem, the healthcare industry reputation for...

Connecticut is taking the next step in guaranteeing that customer data is secure. Therefore, if companies want to do business in this state, they will have to make sure that all personal data that is stored and transmitted is encrypted. In addition this soon to be law would require business to enable stronger password protections and control how much personal identifying information can be downloaded at one time, to help mitigate damage in the...

Connecticut is taking the next step in guaranteeing that customer data is secure. Therefore, if companies want to do business in this state, they...

The popular car sharing service Uber suffered a data breach on May 13, 2014 where the names and driver’s licenses of 50,000 drivers in the United States were exposed. They only discovered the breach on September 17, 2014, but the big problem is they didn’t notify the affected parties until January 27, 2015. There are numerous problems here, the least of which is that Uber needs to improve the security of the information it...

The popular car sharing service Uber suffered a data breach on May 13, 2014 where the names and driver’s licenses of 50,000 drivers in...

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