Hospitals must create detailed social media security policies to help ensure personal health information never gets posted, says Sharon Finney, corporate data security officer at Adventist Health System.
The guide defines a seven-step contingency planning process that agencies should apply to develop and maintain a viable contingency planning program for their information systems.
Health insurer WellPoint Inc. is encouraging its business partners to use the HITRUST Common Security Framework to demonstrate their capabilities for keeping health information secure.
Looming federal audits for compliance with the HIPAA privacy and security rules create a new sense of urgency for having an up-to-date, comprehensive risk assessment.
Federal HIPAA privacy and security rule compliance audits of healthcare organizations and their business associates likely will start later this year, says Susan McAndrew, deputy director for privacy in the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
When it comes to sizing up healthcare information security risks, peer-to-peer networks, designed for sharing music and videos, probably aren't on the priority list. But perhaps they should be.
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