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HIPAA Security Rule NPRM: What to Know & What to Do
With the recent announcement of proposed changes to the HIPAA Security Rule, the U.S. Department Health and Human Services (HHS) has signaled a desire to strengthen the cybersecurity practices of regulated entities by updating the Rule’s standards to better address...
A Sisyphean Tale: Insights for Cybersecurity Professionals
How Security Leaders Can Build Stronger Defenses Against Rising Vulnerabilities
Texas Investigates Insider Breach, Theft of Benefit Funds
7 Texas Health and Human Services Workers Fired in Incident Affecting 61,000 People
Interpreting OCR’s Risk Analysis Enforcement Initiative and How the Regulatory Environment Is Evolving
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has made risk analysis a top priority in its enforcement of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance. Dawn Morgenstern, Senior Director of Consulting Services and...
Assessing Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Risk in Health Care Transactions
Andrew Mahler, Vice President of Privacy and Compliance Services, Clearwater, speaks with Jordan Cohen, Partner, Akerman LLP, about managing cybersecurity and data privacy risk during the due diligence process for health care transactions. They discuss the five key...
OCR’s Proposed HIPAA Security Rule Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
In Part 1 of this blog, I provide an overview of OCR’s proposed changes to the HIPAA Security Rule, some commentary on the background, rationale and the potential impact on healthcare, descriptions of key changes in definitions, and OCR’s broader themes. In Part 2, I will dive into specific proposed new or updated standards and implementation specifications and speculate on what may happen next.
HHS proposes new cybersecurity requirements as first major HIPAA update in 10 years
A new proposed rule would also specifically apply to new technologies in healthcare like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, virtual reality and applied reality.
Building a cyber-resilient practice
Key steps to protecting your data and your patients from cybersecurity threats.
Is Healthcare Doing Anything Well in Cybersecurity?
Healthcare IT Today thought it would be interesting to flip the script on cybersecurity in healthcare. Instead of focusing on where we needed to improve, we wanted to hear where we were doing well.