Editor's Choice: Top News and Views for October
An audio review of some of the most compelling content posted on HealthcareInfoSecurity.com in October.
Here's an audio compilation of some of the more interesting news HealthcareInfoSecurity.com reported in October:
- Two affiliated insurance plans serving Medicaid patients in Pennsylvania reported a health information breach stemming from the loss of an unencrypted portable flash drive with information on 280,000 members.
- How should hospital employees who snoop at patient records they're not authorized to view be disciplined? Two recent privacy violation incidents were handled in very different ways.
- Security specialist Mac McMillan says healthcare organizations need to develop a better understanding of how encryption fits as one of many components in a broad security strategy.
