HIPAA
For those in the healthcare industry, you live by HIPAA requirements (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) when it comes to PHI (protected health information). While there have been no updates to HIPAA mandates, the reason why it’s a trend is three-fold.
First, where you interact with PHI may be different. Healthcare organizations, beyond providers, are seeing a rise in remote work.
Second, there are new rules. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule. The focus of the rule is to provide patient access to their healthcare data. It imposes some substantial requirements for all those in the healthcare data ecosystem. Adhering to these rules around interoperability and access opens up new cybersecurity worries.
Third, more healthcare organizations are retiring legacy systems and using archiving solutions to store old patient data and meet medical retention requirements. With the adoption of new applications, new penetration testing is imperative.
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