On September 15, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a Policy Statement instructing health app and connected device companies to comply with the Health Breach Notification Rule (“the Rule”). The Rule, codified...more
11/2/2021
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Data Breach ,
Electronic Devices ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Final Rules ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Mobile Apps ,
PHI ,
Popular ,
Security Breach
Your Organization’s best defense in an environment of aggressive regulators and litigious plaintiffs’ counsel is the completion of an enterprise risk assessment. Regulators and attorneys general are fining–sometimes hundreds...more
2/8/2019
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Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Enterprise Risks ,
Hackers ,
HIPAA Breach ,
NIST ,
OCR ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Risk Assessment ,
Stakeholder Engagement
In its most recent cybersecurity initiative, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients, described as a set of...more