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Connecticut’s enacted Senate Bill 949 contains significant data security requirements for entities contracting with state agencies and entities in the health insurance and administration business.
Contracting entities must provide:
Health care orgnaizations are experiencing high levels of data breaches. A poll of health care data security experts list 2 challenges:
Connecticut and Oregon both strengthened laws protecting health care data this year. Specifically the states , strengthened protections of personally identifiable information (“PII”).
Say you’re a health care provider. You buy data breach insurance policy to cover any potential hacks or breaches. you think you’re doing the right thing to protect your business.
Then, your data gets hacked. You file a claim with your insurance company. You’re denied. You go to court.
The insurance company says the health care provider failed to provide the required minimum security standards.
Its a case of first impression. It’ll make history and make legislation far and wide as the…
NAPA has new data breach compliance and certification. Data breaches are big business, people.
Data breaches and protecting against data breaches generate:
Data breaches impact:
Healthcare Management Information Systems Society released a new survey about data security and healthcare, the results:
Will Congress pass a national data security bill after the massive federal employee data breach. Odds are not high. There is a higher liklihood that next week there will be a new food trailer opening in Austin.
What does this mean? States will pass stronger data security bills from everything from retailers to public education contractors to health care data.
A data breach at Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services made 6,600 Medicaid patients’ information, including Social Security numbers and private health information, available online.
A federal judge in Los Angeles Monday refused to throw out legal claims that Sony was negligent in maintaining adequate data security.
Refresher: the Sony data hack led to the release of:
“Sweeping changes to provincial health privacy laws will soon cut down the red tape preventing authorities from prosecuting snoopers and force hospitals to declare all breaches of patient records to the privacy watchdog.”