New software tool for healthcare data breach risk assessments

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

ID Experts today announced RADAR (HITECH Risk Assessment, Documentation and Reporting), the industry’s first expert software tool to measure a data breach incident’s risk index (IRI) by combining the severity of the episode and the sensitivity of the exposed data to quantify the incident’s overall harm threshold.  Designed for healthcare ...

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HITECH Breach Risk Assessment Webinar

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Healthcare organizations that fall under the definition of HIPAA covered entities should be very aware of their obligations under the data breach provisions of the HITECH Act. The reason being that there are now very substantial penalties for disregarding the security and privacy regulations, for lax ...

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Reporting of Healthcare Data Breaches?

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

by Doug Pollack Since the HITECH Act data breach notification provisions became effective this past September 23, 2009, I'd recently become curious about the number and nature of data breaches that would start to appear on the website at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The HHS Rules require healthcare ...

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