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Has personalization touched healthcare technology yet?

by | May 29, 2015 | Current IT Security Events, Healthcare, Healthcare IT, HIPAA, HIPAA HITECH, IT News You Can Use, IT Security, IT Security Tips, Security Breaches

Open Source Personalization, Not Without Risks Everybody understands the term ‘personalized healthcare’, it’s what we have naturally come to expect in the new age of consumerization, Customer Relationship Management and choice. Equally, everybody (these days)...

Is this Breach the Scariest Thing We’ve Seen from Sony in a Long While?

by | Dec 17, 2014 | Business Associate, Current IT Security Events, Cyber Attack, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, IT News You Can Use, Security Breach, Security Tip

News is not joyous for Sony this holiday season. Every day there is a new development, more leaked information, and now outright threats from the “Guardians of Peace” attackers who have taken over Sony’s network and systems. The dramatic developments have been...

Avoiding the Most Common Compliance Issues to Trigger an OCR Investigation

by | Oct 30, 2014 | Compliance, Compliance Investigation, Current IT Security Events, EPHI, HIPAA, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA HITECH, HIPAA Penalty, PHI

We have seen numerous indications over the last several months that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights, the agency responsible for enforcing HIPAA regulations, plans to take an increasingly aggressive approach to enforcement....

Back to Network Security Basics

by | Sep 4, 2014 | Community Health Systems, Current IT Security Events, Data Breach, Heartbleed, Home Depot, IT Security, JP Morgan, Network Penetration, Network Testing, Network Vulnerability, Network Vulnerability Testing, Security Breach, Target

Last week, I wrote an article addressing the concept of “assumption of breach” and, as if to put a big shining spotlight on that idea, in one short week, we have learned that JP Morgan (along with other unnamed banks) and Home Depot have both been victims of massive...