Event to Focus on Safeguarding Information
Office for Civil Rights, NIST to address security issues
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights and the National Institute of Standards and Technology will convene the event, "Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance Through HIPAA Security."
Topics to be discussed will include:
The OCR's enforcement of the HIPAA security rule;
Risk assessments and contingency planning;
Logging and auditing issues;
Security of health devices; and
Security issues for mobile technologies and new media.
Panels will discuss the federal breach notification rule and the status of compliance with the HIPAA security rule, among other topics.
For more information, visit nist.gov
