Since I follow the teleheath space rather closely from a security/privacy perspective, I was drawn yesterday to this article titled “How Health Privacy Regulations Hinder Telehealth Adoption”. From my experience, …
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Can we change the tune on Health Information Security and Privacy please?
Notice the title doesn’t say HIPAA Security and Privacy. Nor does it have any of the words – HITECH, Omnibus Rule, Meaningful Use etc. That is the point of this post. Let …
You don’t know what you don’t know Do we have a “detection” problem with the healthcare data breach numbers?
Like some of you perhaps, I have been reading a few recent articles on Healthcare data breaches, especially the one from Dark Reading and a detailed analysis of the 2010-to-date …
Proposed updates to HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules What is new?
It was good to see the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) publish the long awaited proposed updates to HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules Thursday last week. Note that OCR is …
FTC delays enforcement of Identity Theft Red Flags Rule to 12/31/10
FTC announced earlier this morning that it is delaying enforcement of the Red Flags Rule to 12/31/10 pending expected legislation by Congress that would affect the scope of entities covered …
Identity Theft Red Flags Rule – Is the 06/01/10 deadline looking good?
Frankly, I have lost count of how many times FTC has moved the deadline already (see my related post from 2009). This time, however, I think the deadline is too …
Privacy Statements, Notices, Policies …
How often do we care to read the privacy statements we receive from any number of sources these days? I must say I’m not a regular either if you ask …