The latest development in the wake of the unauthorized release of information about a House ethics investigation is newly proposed legislation in the form of what would be called the Secure Federal File Sharing Act (H.R….
The new federal health information data breach disclosure rules went into effect in September, but as HHS works on finalizing another set of HIPAA rule changes (this time about penalties for HIPAA violations), Mitch Wagner of…
Another article focusing on policies and controls to prevent the use of peer-to-peer file sharing technologies in the wake of the Congressional ethics committee report last week contains the best concise statement we’ve seen in a…
The British Ministry of Justice recently published proposed new penalties for knowingly misusing personal data in violation of section 55 of the Data Protection Act. The proposals raise the maximum penalty to include jail time, in…
Recent news that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) suffered the theft of an employee’s personal laptop that contained personal information on hundreds of thousands of physicians illustrates once again that it is not enough…
In what has become a consistent theme out of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, it seems the idea is still under consideration to try to require private-sector organizations to comply with the…
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