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This Week in eDiscovery: Survey on eDiscovery Growth | ‘Tis the Season for CLEs & More

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This week’s post covers the period of December 15-20. Here’s what’s happening....more

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[Webinar] Data Mining 2.0: How WatchtowerAI Transforms Incident Response - December 6th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

In today’s digital landscape, organizations face a constant threat of cybersecurity incidents. Identifying sensitive information and promptly notifying relevant parties during an incident is a daunting challenge. The current...more

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[Webinar] Data Breach Review: Best Practices and Top Technology Considerations - December 2nd, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

There’s no denying that data breaches are a major concern for organizations of all sizes, 2021 saw 1,860 data breaches occur (a record high), and 81% of those involved sensitive information like social security numbers and...more

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Healthcare Organizations Must Deal with their Shadow Information Problem

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A myopic focus on protecting EMR (Electronic Medical Records) systems has left healthcare organizations open to shadow information risk. In a world where hackers and ransomware criminals are regularly compromising healthcare...more

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Hackers Will Not Only Take Your Money, They Could Also Take Your Patients’ Lives

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Go to just about any news site today and there is probably a new story about a data breach that costs a company millions of dollars. Just in the past few weeks, we’ve seen Colonial Pipeline pay as much as $5 million in...more

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OCR Issues Guidance on Disposing Electronic Data and Media

In its July newsletter on cybersecurity, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released “Guidance on Disposing of Electronic Devices and Media,” which outlines the requirements health care providers and business associates have...more

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ABCD Pediatrics Victim of Ransomware

ABCD Pediatrics, located in San Antonio, Texas has notified the Office for Civil Rights that a ransomware cyber intrusion has resulted in access to its servers, including the protected health information (PHI) of its...more

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Three-Month Delay Means Health Network Must Pay

A delay in reporting a HIPAA violation can result in a significant monetary penalty. That was the message sent by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which recently announced the first HIPAA settlement based on the untimely...more

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HHS: Ransomware Attacks Likely HIPAA Breaches In Absence of Encryption

On July 11, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued a Fact Sheet that provides guidance on (i) how HIPAA Security Rule compliance can assist health care organizations combat ransomware attacks, and...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

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HIPAA Compliant Technology and the Importance of Encryption

We welcome this guest blog by Gene Fry, Compliance Officer, Scrypt, Inc. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets the standard for protecting sensitive patient data. This means that any...more

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Heartbleed: It’s 10 PM; Do You Know Where Your Data is?

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The Heartbleed vulnerability is, by now, an item about which we have all assuredly heard a lot. To get caught up on your reading on the technology aspects of this issue, see the linked articles I have compiled in the ”To...more

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Take 5 Newsletter: 5 Employment Law Considerations in "The Cloud"

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What is "the cloud," and what on Earth (pun intended) does cloud computing have to do with employment law? While many definitions abound, cloud computing at its core is a form of remote electronic data storage,...more

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How To Analyze A HIPAA Breach

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The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) and subsequent regulations have changed several aspects of compliance with HIPAA, including the way covered entities should think about...more

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