Those costs include government fines, class action lawsuits, plus the cost of informing patients about their compromised records, paying for credit monitoring services, forensic analysis and much more.Paul CerratoProtecting Patient Information
Security is a top priority for us at WPS, which is why security is built in throughout the WPS e-commerce website and the Online Evaluation System (OES). Maintaining a secure infrastructure and environment that safeguards data and protected health information (PHI) is our highest priority for...
Healthcare has taken giant leaps from physical patient records to EHRs, telehealth, and healthcare apps.Online portals with seamless access to patient data have replaced registers with patient information in physical form. While this seamless availability ofprotected health information(PHI) is beneficial...
What Is Health Insurance? Health insurance is a contract between a company and a consumer. The company agrees to pay all or some of the insured person's healthcare costs in return for payment of a monthly premium.1 The contract is usually a one-year agreement, during which you are respons...
Security: How is information protected from unauthorized access? Availability: Is the technology designed to be reliably available? Confidentiality: Is the confidentiality of customer data monitored and ensured? Privacy: Is customer data privacy guaranteed? Processing Integrity: Is the system...
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"They don't need to call you and ask you for that information because they already have it," says Susan Grant, retired senior fellow focused on privacy advocacy issues for the Consumer Federation of America. "No one is legitimately going to be calling and asking for that. If t...
These regulations often outline what data must be protected (personally identifiable information, protected health information and sensitive data) and suggest security controls, e.g. encryption, access control or the principle of least privilege. It's important to get in the habit of regularly monitor...
How Safe Is Your Digital Health Information? Health data is "gold," Parent says. With so much health information available online, it was only a matter of time before someone tried to exploit it for profit. In the second half of 2020, hackers broke into more than 21 million patient record...
We hope this article has helped you better understand the importance of data security when it comes to patient data and protected health information (PHI) and has given you some patient privacy-preserving methods that you can implement in your organization as well....