Ponemon Study: The Health Care Industry is Barking Up the Wrong Tree with EHR
On November 9, the Ponemon Institute released a new benchmark study on patient privacy and data security that examined the state of patient privacy practices, breaches involving patient information and...
View ArticleBalancing Privacy and Big Data
In a recent article from the NY Times titled “Big Data is Opening Doors, but Maybe Too Many“, Steve Lohr details the delicate balance of privacy restrictions and the use of Big Data analytics to make...
View ArticlePHI Protection Challenges & Solutions: Lessons Learned from PCI DSS
May 8, 2013, I spoke at the VigiTrust event, “How to Prevent Data Breaches in the Healthcare Industry and Surpass HIPAA Compliance,” detailing the challenges in and solutions for protecting PHI data...
View ArticleDoE Hacked (Again) – Why Data Security Can’t Be Ignored
The Department of Energy recently announced that they had experienced a breach of 14,000 employees’ personal information. While perimeter network security gets a lot of attention, back end security of...
View ArticleNHS to Sell De-Identified Patient Data, Privacy Concerns Abound
The NHS is in the process of organizing a centralized database for all of England’s healthcare data, called the “Health and Social Care Information Centre”, and developing a plan to allow third parties...
View ArticlePHI Protection Challenges & Solutions: Lessons Learned from PCI DSS
May 8, 2013, I spoke at the VigiTrust event, “How to Prevent Data Breaches in the Healthcare Industry and Surpass HIPAA Compliance,” detailing the challenges in and solutions for protecting PHI data...
View ArticleDoE Hacked (Again) – Why Data Security Can’t Be Ignored
The Department of Energy recently announced that they had experienced a breach of 14,000 employees’ personal information. While perimeter network security gets a lot of attention, back end security of...
View ArticleNHS to Sell De-Identified Patient Data, Privacy Concerns Abound
The NHS is in the process of organizing a centralized database for all of England’s healthcare data, called the “Health and Social Care Information Centre”, and developing a plan to allow third parties...
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Information Security in Healthcare
The story about Google DeepMind’s agreement with Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is the latest controversy to erupt around the sharing of NHS data, in this case 1.6 million patient records....
View ArticleLearn How BCBS of Minnesota Transformed Data Security to Transform their...
People I work with are passionate about their roles protecting the private and sensitive data they are responsible for, facing new challenges daily as IT evolves and organizations innovate. This is...
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Healthcare Industry Faces Epidemic of PHI Attacks
Healthcare organizations are under siege from profit-minded hackers who are utilizing common exploits to extract the contents of sensitive databases and sell them for $US20 per record or more, writes...
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HIMSS Puts the Focus Upon Securing the Patient Experience
For good reasons, patient experience has clearly been brought to the forefront of healthcare. It has been known for a long time that there is a relationship between patient experience and clinical...
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Healthcare Payers on the Road to Digital Transformation
Healthcare payer CIOs tell me that today their organizations are transforming their historical missions to put members up front and center and that core to this change is the ability to use data to...
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Privacy and Security are Key to Enabling Data-driven Healthcare
While the HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum last week in Boston featured a diverse group of healthcare professionals from payers and providers of all sizes, there was one common theme that everyone...
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Healthcare Providers Need to Prepare Before They Share
Healthcare industry is one of the top 3 industries hit by serious data breaches Healthcare providers today need to be able to share and access information in an increasingly connected ecosystem, not...
View ArticlePHI Protection Challenges & Solutions: Lessons Learned from PCI DSS
With more stringent data security requirements and regular audits on the horizon, in addition to increasing attacks on PHI data, organizations should act now to protect their data, before it's too...
View ArticleDoE Hacked (Again) – Why Data Security Can’t Be Ignored
Even after the first breach, nothing was done to protect their employees’ sensitive information, and once again, perimeter security failed to prevent a breach. The post DoE Hacked (Again) – Why Data...
View ArticleNHS to Sell De-Identified Patient Data, Privacy Concerns Abound
A great deal of concern has been expressed at the prospect of selling patient information to third parties, as the public fears violations of their privacy. The post NHS to Sell De-Identified Patient...
View ArticleInformation Security in Healthcare
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust shares 1.6 million NHS patient records The post Information Security in Healthcare appeared first on Protegrity.
View ArticleLearn How BCBS of Minnesota Transformed Data Security to Transform their...
In the past year, security incidents in the healthcare industry have risen by 60% and the costs associated with a PHI breach have almost quadrupled. The post Learn How BCBS of Minnesota Transformed...
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