{"id":121,"date":"2015-03-02T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/03\/02\/lege-trend-higher-health-care-data-privacy-standards\/"},"modified":"2015-03-02T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T20:03:00","slug":"lege-trend-higher-health-care-data-privacy-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/lege-trend-higher-health-care-data-privacy-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: Higher Health Care Data Privacy Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/asp\/cgabillstatus\/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&amp;bill_num=SB01024&amp;which_year=2015\">SB1024<\/a>\u00a0applies higher data privacy standards on health care providers, by establishing regulations through the department of insurance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which health care entities are affected?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>health insurers<\/li>\n<li>HMOs<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;other entities licensed to do health insurance business in Connecticut,&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>pharmacy benefits managers<\/li>\n<li>third-party administrators that administer health benefits<\/li>\n<li>utilization review companies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are these health care businesses required to do?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>encrypt health care data that it maintains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What personal information information are health care entities required to encrypt?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0individual&#8217;s first name or initial and last name in combination with one or more of the following:<\/li>\n<li>Social Security number<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0driver&#8217;s license number<\/li>\n<li>address<\/li>\n<li>or identifiable health information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 2015 CT bill follows in the path of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthcare.daypitney.com\/Entry.aspx?eid=470\">New Jersey<\/a> health care data privacy bill. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recp.rm05.net\/servlet\/MailView?m=7542313&amp;r=MjA4NDkzMTkyMTUS1&amp;j=NjIyNTg3ODAxS0&amp;mt=1?utm_source=Mondaq&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=View-Original\">Day Pitney\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/asp\/cgabillstatus\/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&amp;bill_num=SB01024&amp;which_year=2015\">SB1024<\/a>\u00a0applies higher data privacy standards on health care providers, by establishing regulations through the department of insurance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which health care entities are affected?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>health insurers<\/li>\n<li>HMOs<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;other entities licensed to do health insurance business in Connecticut,&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>pharmacy benefits manager&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-encryption","category-data-privacy","category-health-care-data","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}