Page 4 - White Papers in Standards, Regulations & Compliance

Secure HIPAA Compliant Cloud Computing

Achieving HIPAA compliance is a journey, not a destination. The regulatory landscape is constantly changing, resources are stretched beyond capacity, disparate systems make it difficult to assess and remediate gaps, and the sophistication of cybercriminals is accelerating faster than most healthcare organizations can...

How to Defend Against Ransomware: Healthcare Fights Back

MedStar is but the latest healthcare entity to fall victim to a ransomware attack. What can organizations do proactively to improve their ransomware defenses and response? PhishMe CEO Rohyt Belani offers insight. It's no surprise that healthcare entities are being targeted, Belani says - and not just by ransomware,...

Why HIPAA Compliance is Impossible Without Privileged Management

For many organizations, compliance with data security standards doesn't seem to be getting easier. Although HIPAA represents only a portion of the data security compliance obligations faced by most organizations handling healthcare data, it is one of the most significant. Achieving and proving your compliance...

The Benefits of Email Encryption: GLBA, FFIEC, HIPAA Compliance

Securing sensitive emails isn't just a best practice - it's often the law. Compliance with regulations is a priority for healthcare, financial services and government organizations; it may also need to be a priority for companies that work with these organizations or practice business in specific...

Email Encryption for Healthcare: Improve HIPAA/HITECH Compliance and Secure PHI

Healthcare organizations face an ongoing compliance burden involving the protection of sensitive patient data. The task of safeguarding data grows increasingly complex as the organization's environment adapts to advancing threats and shifting technology trends. Once simply in record rooms and on desktops, now...

Advanced Threat Protection for Patient Health Information

Within health systems such as Navicent Health, the already serious risk of targeted threats is compounded. Besides laptops, notebook computers, and smartphones, the hospital's network hosts numerous biomedical devices that are not under the control of the in-house technology team, and do not run standard antivirus...

What is Downtime Costing Your Hospital?

You can't stop taking care of patients when the computers are down. Whether you are entering patients' data into their records or sending billing information to an off-site accounting service, you need that access to continue non-stop. See how you can save time and money with an active-active, highly available file...

Managing Cybersecurity Risk in a HIPAA-Compliant World

Organizations are at a crossroads when deciding on the proper course of action for compliance with regulations applicable to the healthcare industry and how to manage risk to the security of sensitive health information. This is an important decision that shapes the foundation of an organization's security culture and...

Securing Distributed Healthcare Networks for PCI DSS 3.0 and HIPAA Compliance

Distributed healthcare networks have grown in complexity over the last decade as they expand network access and add more sophisticated security technologies to protect their networks. In addition, the adoption of standards such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and HIPAA have also improved...

Managing Unknown Risks to Medical Devices, Patients and Their Data

In this resource, Dr. Alan Snell, former CMIO, and Jeffrey Short, a healthcare attorney, share insights on medical device risks that are easily missed, and easily catastrophic, with repercussions ranging from HIPAA violations to patient harm. More importantly, they offer guidance on what healthcare leaders can...

Realizing the Promise of Health Information Exchange

Health information exchange (HIE) - the electronic movement of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards - has the potential to transform nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery in this country. Recent policies have helped fund major growth in the world of...

Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as if Your Business Depends on It

Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...

Healthcare: Where Are The Threats and How Are They Mitigated?

To know where healthcare IT security is going - and what it needs to protect in 2017 and beyond - it's instructive to take a look at where we've been. In general, compromised credentials remain the leading source of intrusion across industries. Specific to healthcare, the top three sources of unauthorized data...