HIPAA May not Protect Compulsive Liars

I recently had the opportunity to review an article by Michael Koploy of Software Advice titled "HHS Data Tells the True Story of HIPAA Violations in the Cloud".

Many IT folks know that regardless of their respective fields the "unofficial" eighth and ninth layers of the OSI model are budget and politics.

One of the most promising technologies for automatically enforcing compliance with sensitive data handling practices is Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology and it is quickly gaining popularity and adoption across many industries.

With 29 million healthcare records breached in 2020 amid a 25% year-over-year rise, experts discuss HIPAA, HITECH, risk-based security, threat modeling, and cloud adoption for protecting PHI.

A talk with Mattapan Community Health Center's CMO on how COVID-19 pushed 90% of care onto telemedicine, clinician adoption hurdles, and new security questions raised by home medical devices.

KPMG will begin HIPAA privacy audits for HHS, ending years of unenforced compliance. The author draws parallels to PCI's rollout and urges healthcare providers to fund privacy and security work.