Financial Impact Of Breached Protected Health Information Report Helps IT Pros Make The Business Case For Patient Data Protection

Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:34 am

By Ericka Chickowski As the number of healthcare data breaches continues to snowball, executives put in charge of safeguarding protected health information (PHI) can’t keep up with the risks inherent with increased deployment of electronic health records (EHRs) without enough financial backing to get the job done. And the only way that these PHI protectors can […]

PHI Project Release Report About Health Care Data Security

Posted on at 9:32 am

PHI PROJECT RELEASE REPORT ABOUT HEALTH CARE DATA SECURITY On Monday, the PHI Project released a report about the state of data security within health care organizations titled, “The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information: A Business Case for Enhanced PHI Security.” Key findings: Weak Data Security: health care organizations are entrusted with safeguarding patient privacy, […]

Security Experts At A Loss For Words

Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:15 pm

By Abraham To view the original article please click here. No it is not your imagination. Security breaches are on the rise, particularly in healthcare. This is due to the fact that modern techniques are making more healthcare records available in electronic format. While this does wonders for efficiency and potential more accurate diagnosis and faster treatment […]

ANSI Publishes Report On Security Breaches

Posted on at 4:12 pm

By AuntMinnie.com Staff Writers The Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has published a 67-page report about the need for healthcare organizations to protect patient information from data breaches. The “Financial Impact of Breached Health Information” discusses the financial, legal, operational, clinical, and other repercussions of […]

Healthcare Security Pros Need To Speak The Language of Finance

Posted on at 4:09 pm

Experts say PHI protectors can’t pay for data protection because they don’t know how to make the business case for it By Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading As the number of healthcare data breaches continues to snowball, executives put in charge of safeguarding protected health information (PHI) can’t keep up with the risks inherent […]

Rallying Support For Security Investments

Posted on at 4:07 pm

New Method for Quantifying Breach Costs, Justifying Spending By Howard Anderson Because winning the support of CEOs for any new project requires demonstrating a return on investment, information security professionals need to more precisely quantify the potential payoff of their suggested spending on technologies and training, according to a new report. Security specialists need help “putting […]

Healthcare Industry CIOs, CSOs Must Improve Security

Posted on March 6, 2012 at 4:01 pm

By Thor Olavsrud Given that stolen medical records can bring $50 apiece on the underground market, the frequency and magnitude of data breaches involving electronic health records is increasing. In an effort to help CIOs and CSOs build a better business case for enhancing security, a group of standards and security organizations have issued a new […]

ANSI: Know The Impact Of A Breach Before It Occurs

Posted on at 3:59 pm

To view the original article please click here. As adoption rates rise, health IT makes protected health information (PHI) available to more organizations and entities, increasing the likelihood of data being improperly disclosed, lost or stolen. Despite the risks and costs of a potential data breach, many healthcare executives aren’t doing enough to support their organizations’ […]

REPORT: Securing Protect Health Information ‘Not Always A Top Priority’

Posted on at 3:56 pm

By Renee Boucher Ferguson A comprehensive new report released this week, outlines the fragile state of patient information security, offering up a five-step methodology to help healthcare CIOs and CEOs determine the right level of investment in technology, processes and policy to better protect patient information. In the report, three organizations–the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), The Santa […]

New Report Calls For Enhanced Security To Safeguard Protected Health Information

Posted on at 3:53 pm

5-Step Method Provides Health Care Organizations with Tool to Estimate the Overall Potential Costs of a Data Breach To view the original article please click here. ANSI, The Santa Fe Group/Shared Assessments Program Healthcare Working Group,and the Internet Security Alliance to Host Congressional Briefing Today; White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt to Speak at Press Conference […]