Healthcare HIPAA Identity Theft
Posts Tagged ‘Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’
Pleasant Grove man sentenced to 6 years in federal prison for role in prescription fraud case
Posted: 27th May 2011 by admin in Government Security, Hacking News, HIPAA, Identity theft, Security Assesment, Security PolicyTags: Credit card, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Identity theft, Theft
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What is the value of a Data Breach?
Posted: 27th January 2010 by admin in Compliance, Hacking News, HIPAA, PCI, Security AssesmentTags: Citibank, Data Breach, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Ponemon Institute, Pretty Good Privacy
Image by Getty Images via Daylife SC magazine just reported that the Ponemon Institute has determined the cost of a data breach is $204 per record. “Data breaches last year cost organizations $204 per exposed record on average, which represents an almost two percent increase over 2008, according to the fifth annual “Cost of Data [...]
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
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 [...]
FTC’s Additional Rules for HIPAA Security
Posted: 23rd August 2009 by admin in Compliance, Government Security, HIPAA, risk assessment, Security AssesmentTags: Federal Trade Commission, Health care, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, security rule
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 [...]