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Hackers move from Insurance Companies to Hospitals + health care networks. 3 Key tidbits.

Experian predicts hackers will target hospital networks above insurance companies.
Why? hospital patient data is very valuable
How? hospital networks are decentralized and its harder to maintain data security protocols

Becker’s ASC Review | Data breach forecast for 2017: Cyber criminals to target healthcare

Data Security in beyond traditional HIPPA medical information.

What medical information isn’t covered by HIPAA?genomic, lifestyle, financial, environmental and other information that wearbale devices and meters store

Is all the genomic and lifestyle data HIPAA worthy? Some of it probably should be covered

What do we need to know about geonomic and lifestyle data? We have to think about medical information outside the traditional format.

Security Privacy & the Law | Cybersecurity 2017 – The Year In Preview: HIPAA Compliance

Business Trend. Health care and Tech. By 2018, 70% of health care will be tech driven. 7 Upcoming trends to be regulated

Apple is poised to enter health care in these 7 ways:

clinical trial partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
precision medicine initiative with Scripps Translational Science Institute
partnered with IBM, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic on cognitive computing platform called Watson Health Cloud
- offering tailored data analytics services to clinicians
bought a health care tech firm to advance interoperability by aggregating health data into a single digital patient…

4 Data Privacy Issues with Personal Fitness Tech. Ripe for Legislative Disclosures.

None of the companies will give users proper notice about changes in their terms
All of the wristbands collect more data than what is necessary to provide the service
None of the companies fully explain who they may share user data with
None of the companies state how long they will retain user data

Tech Crunch | Fitbit, Jawbone, Garmin and Mio fitness bands criticized for privacy failings

9 out of 10 Attorneys Agree. Not Good News for Health Care Business.

Health care attorneys agree that health care industry is at a higher risk for cyber crime. Here’s the data to support it:

88% of ransomeware targets are health care entities
84% of health care attorneys have been involved with clients who must dtermine issues like notification after a breach and adopting internal cyber security controls.

It must be bad if attorneys are agreeing with each other.

Health Care Dive | Healthcare attorneys: Industry is at higher risk of cybercrime than others

+1 Medical Device Open to hackers

Which device? Johnson & Johnson warns that its insulin pumps are suspectible to hacking

What would be required of the hacker? A hacker in close proximity to the device could isolate hte unencrypted radio signal used by the device

Wall Street Journal | J&J Warns Insulin Pump Vulnerable to Cyber Hacking

SECURITY TREND. 2 Legislatures Changed When Data Breach Notifications are Required.

What change did the Nevada & Rhode Island Legislatures make? Changed the definition of personal information for data breaches

What was added to the definition of personal information?

medical identification number
a health insurance identification number
a user name, unique identifier or electronic mail address in combination with a password, access code or security question and answer that permits access to an online account

The difference between the 2 states? Rhode Island clarified…

New State Database. New Data Security. Read an Example of an Opioid Database.

The state creating an opioid database: California

What will be required of physicians before writing an opioid prescription? Physicians will have to check a database of patient prescription histories before recommending addictive drug.

The legislation: Senate Bill 482 by Lara

Bryan College Station Eagle | The Latest: Senate backs health plan pricing bill

3 Reasons Hackers Target Health Care Data.

What type of healthcare data? Medical records and wearable data from heart monitors to implanted devices to fitbits

What is crucial about protecting health care data? It must be protected as the information moves from device to cloud storage to medical records end point at a physician or hospital

What makes health records more valuable?

Unlike financial information, health data or changes to social security numbers are not quickly identifiable
The release of health records includes…

Largest Data Breach Settlement Against Health Care Provider.

The enforcing regulatory authority: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The data breach: 4 million patients personal data, financial information and electronic health information was exposed in 3 different incidents within 1 year.

The Settlement amount: almost $6 million fine

Society for Human Resource Management | Health Care System to Pay Largest Data Breach Settlement Ever