Now you can measure the potential cost of a data breach in your organization and take appropriate steps to invest in a befitting solution that can prevent data breaches from occurring. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI)in collaboration with Santa Fe Group/Shared Assessments Program Healthcare Working Group, and the Internet Security Alliance (ISA), issued a…
You may be thinking that your organization is completely shielded from security threats, and that a breach of any sort in any organization, is a rarity. But the fact is that health information breaches are no longer one-off incidents. They are much more frequent than we tend to imagine. About 385 major breaches have been reported in the last couple of years, and the number of individuals affected by these breaches has touched a new high. With the addition of the Sutter Health incident to the list, the breach tally raises over 19 million individuals since September 2009.
Neglecting or not complying with HIPAA rules is sure to attract enormous penalties. Proof of this, is the massive $4.9 billion lawsuit filed against TRICARE for compromising health information of the beneficiaries of TRICARE military health program. The breach occurred when unencrypted backup tapes were stolen from the car of an employee of Science Applications…
Protecting sensitive data is certainly not as simple as we may imagine- and yet another incident of data theft demonstrates this beyond any doubt. In what is reported to be the largest data breach incident since the HIPAA breach notification rule came into effect, the Defense Department’s TRICARE healthcare program, which serves active duty troops…
Cyber criminals have now shifted course – and with a strategy that puts small businesses in jeopardy! Joe Angelastri owner of City Newstand Inc. had never imagined that his small business could be a target for hackers. Last year Angelastri suffered a loss of $22,000 because of theft of customer credit card information from his…
A portable hard drive containing personal health information was reported lost, putting records of 280,000 Medicaid enrollees in Pennsylvania at risk. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Keystone Mercy Health Plan and AmeriHealth Mercy Health Plan used this portable hard drive at community health fairs, and that it was lost within the companies’ corporate offices. The…
