Archive for the ‘data breach’ Category
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 ...
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
This article is reprinted from Healthcare IT News with the author's permission.
by Doug Pollack
The handling of data breach incidents has become a way of life for healthcare providers and with other HIPAA covered entities. With the passage of the HITECH Act last year, there are now substantial penalties ...
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
It is terrific to see that a recent discussion forum of healthcare CIOs concluded that “human foibles” are likely to continue to contribute to data breach incidents in healthcare.The CIOs were on an e-health panel at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Mass.
As noted ...
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
Courtesy of Digital Transactions, Heartland Payment Systems entered into a $41MM settlement agreement regarding their highly publicized data breach incident with Mastercard, Inc.
Continuing its massive clean-up in the wake of the payment card industry’s biggest data breach, merchant acquirer Heartland Payment Systems Inc. late on Wednesday announced a ...
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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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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Symantec released their Global Internet Security Report for 2009 which explores in great detail the causes of data breach incidents. It finds that hacking attacks are responsible for the majority of personal identity records exposed in 2009.
"In 2009, 60 percent of identities exposed were compromised by ...
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
by Doug Pollack
ID Experts today announced a new and unique solution for data breaches that involve protected health information (PHI) and associated risks of medical identity theft.
With the passage of the HITECH Act last year and the clarifying Rules published by Health and Human Services (HHS), healthcare organizations now face ...
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
It has been reported that 2009 has been the year of the mega-data breach. Recently reported statistics by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) would seem to bear this out as far as our federal government and military is concerned as well.
Government Technology, commenting on the report noted ...
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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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Monday, October 5th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
This past week, the Boston Globe wrote about a data breach incident at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts that occurred in August of this year and where the affected population of people is just now being notified. The breach, which included social security numbers, included over 39,000 ...
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