by HIPAAgps | Jul 14, 2016 | HIPAA News
What are vulnerability scans and penetration tests, and why are they important? Vulnerability Scanning is typically an automated, high-level process that identifies possible security flaws and weaknesses in a network, but can generate false positives that must be...
by HIPAAgps | Jun 30, 2016 | HIPAA News
Patterson Dental Supply Inc. reported a breach of 4,300 records to its associate Massachusetts General Hospital on February 8, 2016. According to a Boston Herald report, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) stated that a recent breach of Protected Health Information...
by HIPAAgps | Jun 23, 2016 | HIPAA News
According to a recent IBM and Ponemon Institute study, the average cost per stolen data record in the health care industry is more than twice the cost for breaches in any other industry. Results reported by the IBM and Ponemon Institute study indicate that the costs...
by HIPAAgps | Jun 16, 2016 | HIPAA News
California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) issued a press release on May 13, 2016 outlining the theft of a laptop that may contain Protected Health Information (PHI) for 400,000 prisoners incarcerated between 1996 and 2014. The laptop was password protected;...
by HIPAAgps | Jun 9, 2016 | HIPAA News
Health care organizations face increased security risks because of third-party software use, according to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a bulletin outlining the need for health care organizations to keep third-party...
by HIPAAgps | Jun 2, 2016 | HIPAA News
Health and Human Services released information on President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative and the framework intended to help secure data contributed for this Initiative. The Precision Medicine Initiative is intended to work like many of the local Health...
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