Regulatory Trend: Health Care Data Breach

A health care company experiences a data breach, what’s the regulatory and legal landscape?

  • Civil lawsuits that lead to Class Action lawsuits, check.
  • Penalties imposed by a regulatory agency, check.
    • Health and Human Services reached a $750,000 settlement with Cancer Care Group over a data breach involving HIPPA records. 

What can we learn from this incident?

  • health care companies should  conduct risk analysis of tinformation security policies
  • health care companies should have a…

Lege Trend: Legislative Data Task Force. Protect the Data.

California Governor Jerry Brown announced a new Cybersecurity Task Force today. Its goal are to:

  • “reinforce online security”
  • “protect critical state information from data breaches”

The task force is in response to an audit that faulted California for:

  • lax security measures
  • finding 73 of 77 state entities comply with information security standards.
  • “The 75-page audit criticized the California Department of Technology for failing to identify failing state agencies, and found the state…