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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

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Belonging, Connection, and Inclusion Amid COVID-19

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In a short span of time, we have gone from thinking about the virus as a distant concern to working remotely from home as we have been asked to help flatten the curve by social distancing. We are daily bombarded with news and...more

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Beware of COVID-19-Based Cyber Attacks, Say US and UK Agencies

Malicious cyber actors have been exploiting the COVID-19 crisis, warn the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in a joint...more

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FTC Ramps up COVID-19 Activity After Improving its Data Security Enforcement Orders

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With the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), cybersecurity criminals and scammers are ramping up their efforts to target vulnerable employers and workforces. The FTC announced today that since January they have...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Managing Cyber Security Risks of Remote Work

With cases of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) emerging in nearly every state, many businesses are taking swift action in an effort to curb its spread. Teleworking, “remote working,” or simply “working from home,” is a...more

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BYOD Programs: Ensuring the Savings are Worth the Risks

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Many employers are moving towards a "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) program, in which employees are allowed to connect their own personal cell phones, iPads, and laptops to the employer's network and systems. ...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Update - June 2017

HIPAA and Emerging Technologies - Editor’s Note: According to a HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey of healthcare provider employees, about 90% say they are using mobile devices to engage patients in their healthcare—and 36%...more

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BYOD Risks under HIPAA – Does Your HIPAA Compliance Program Adequately Address the Ever Increasing Use of Portable Electronic...

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Many U.S. employers are now allowing employees to use their own personal handheld devices and laptop computers for work-related purposes. As the age of employer-provided devices is coming to an end and “bring your own device”...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

“Bring Your Own Device” To Work Programs: Regulatory and Legal Risks and How To Minimize Them

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If you’ve ever left your mobile phone on an airplane, in a restaurant, or somewhere other than in your possession, you know it’s frightening enough to think of losing the device itself, which costs a premium, as well as your...more

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Personal Smartphones: A Ticking HIPAA/HITECH Time Bomb?

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In this brave new world of health information privacy, many industry experts and healthcare organizations have emphasized the need to secure portable electronic devices such as laptops, issued to employees. But a recently...more

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Healthcare Organizations are Suffering from Serious Data Security Ills

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The diagnosis is in, and its not good. Unless an aggressive treatment plan is put in place, the prognosis will be just as bleak. On December 6, 2012, the Ponemon Institute issued its Third Annual Benchmark Study on...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Health Information Security Is No Game...Except When It Is

On Sept. 17, 2012, HHS announced its fourth HIPAA settlement of the year, reaching a resolution agreement with Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates, Inc. (collectively, “MEEI”) for $1.5...more

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