GAO: HHS Needs to Improve Cybersecurity Info-Sharing Efforts
HealthInfoSec) • June 29, 2021 Get Permission
The Department of Health and Human Services must improve collaboration among several of its key internal entities, as well as with external partners, in order to bolster cybersecurity threat intelligence sharing in the healthcare and public health sector, says a watchdog agency report.
The Government Accountability Office, in a report issued Monday, says it conducted its study because HHS and the healthcare and public health sector rely heavily on information systems to fulfill their missions, including delivering healthcare-related services and responding to national health emergencies, such as COVID-19.
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HIPAA compliance is a complex cybersecurity standard with onerous consequences for failure. Securing Protected Health Information (PHI) at rest and in transit is the critical piece that is too often neglected until it leads to breaches of HIPAA requirements.
HIPAA’s Final Omnibus Rule in 2013 doubled the maximum fine for a single violation of HIPAA from $25,000 to $50,000 per compromised patient record. Meaning the potential penalty for failing to secure PHI adequately could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, even for a breach of just a few thousand records. Adequately securing data per HIPAA requirements is a bet-the-business exercise in security sufficiency and knowing whether security measures were performed to HIPAA’s high standards is a necessity.
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HealthInfoSec) • May 7, 2021
Micky Tripathi, national coordinator for health IT at HHS
As patients more commonly use smartphones and APIs to access their health information, critical security and privacy considerations need to be top of mind, says Micky Tripathi, the new Department of Health and Human Services national coordinator for health IT. There are real concerns, Tripathi says in a video interview with Information Security Media Group. The challenge that we have is that we are putting into place and encouraging the use of technologies that we believe have an overarching benefit of patients being able to have more access and control over their health information - to use it for purposes that will benefit themselves. But that doesn t mean that there aren t some risks along the way … and
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New Regs Aim to Improve Patient Records Access, Sharing
HealthInfoSec) • April 8, 2021 Get Permission
Long-awaited federal information blocking and health IT interoperability regulations under the 21st Century Cures Act went into effect this week. They are designed to give patients improved access to their records, including via smartphone apps, and make it easier for organizations to share records in an effort to improve treatment.
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in a blog post said the Monday compliance deadline for the regulations, which were issued in March 2020, marked a new day for interoperability.