This is story that is several months old, but as I came across it, i thought it would make a good point. A vendor handling healthcare records has lost social security numbers of people in March of 2009. In this case, Health insurer Aetna, Inc., is reportedly providing 65,000 individuals with free credit monitoring for [...]
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HIPAA Vendor Compromised Healthcare Records
Posted: 12th November 2009 by admin in HIPAATags: Aetna, Health care, Health insurance, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, security
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FTC’s Additional Rules for HIPAA Security
Posted: 23rd August 2009 by admin in Compliance, Government Security, HIPAA, Security Assesment, risk assessmentTags: Federal Trade Commission, Health care, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, security rule
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FTC’s Additonal Rules for HIPAA Security The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a rule which gives more scope to the data breach notification rules as part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The addition targets companies that provide health info in an online storage facitlity. Things like Google Health or Healthvault [...]