IT SECURITY & HEALTH CARE UPDATE

摘要

To security professionals at health care organizations, the latest industry buzz word - compliance - is old news. They have, after all, worked toward meeting the requirements of the forerunner of modern compliance laws, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), for more than a decade. Yet data breaches at health care organizations are still all too common. This special section examines several critical issues that companies operating in the health care vertical face on a daily basis. HIPAA remains a top-of-mind topic for everyone in the health care industry. But even as most health care companies pay lip service to HIPAA compliance, just how many of them have performed even the most basic of risk assessments?