Micky Tripathi, President and CEO of Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative provides yeoman service by dissecting a security breach they experienced earlier this year.
For my money, every entity dealing with patient data should read this piece. If you’ve been through it yourself, you’ll be nodding your heads in empathy, and if you haven’t, well, it may get you off the dime to do some things you’ve been intending to do all along – like encrypting data or remind employees about not leaving laptops in cars. It will also make it clear how complex it can be trying to sort what federal and state laws require – particularly if you’re a contractor or your contractor was the entity that had the breach.
Thanks so much to the reader who sent me the link!