The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was enforced more than 20 years ago, and it set standardized privacy and security rules for healthcare practices to follow to [...]
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requires covered entities and business associates to keep electronic protected health information (ePHI) secure. Any violations [...]
A HIPAA security risk assessment is an essential component of achieving and maintaining full compliance with the federal law. Every covered entity and business associate should conduct periodic risk [...]
Healthcare is a favorite target of cybercriminals due to the high value of personally identifiable information on the black market. One of the main tenets of the HIPAA security rule is that covered [...]
Advancements in technology have made it easier for cybercriminals and insider threats to steal, leak, and misuse electronic personal health information (ePHI). If your organization handles ePHI or [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the healthcare industry in 2020, and cybercriminals were quick to take advantage of the dire circumstances to launch cyberattacks on healthcare organizations to steal [...]
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was formed to standardize the ways patient health information (PHI) is protected. Healthcare providers and their IT partners, whether [...]
Privacy is a fundamental human right, especially when it comes to sensitive information, such as patient health records. As digital transformation continues to drive change throughout the healthcare [...]