This is somewhat encouraging to read. Katie Collins reports: A few policies currently in place that are being studied and possibly updated was the focus of the Delaware Valley School District’s February workshop. The Director of Curriculum and Technology Dr. Gina Vives reported that the greatest change amongst the policies was that of the “data…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Resource: 5 steps to get a handle on your practice’s cyber vulnerability
This free webinar, recorded in September, 2017, might be very helpful to small practices or solo practitioners who are feeling overwhelmed about how to start hardening their security to comply with HIPAA and to prevent attacks or breaches. From the AMA: A staggering 83 percent of physicians recently told AMA researchers that their practices have…
Verizon 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report
From Verizon: We’ve re-examined the data within our Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) series (2016 and 2017) to focus in on the healthcare sector’s unique profile and security challenges, and particularly the use/abuse of protected health information (PHI). Our 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report (PHIDBR) is underpinned by 1,368 incidents from this caseload…
Survey: 18% of Health Employees Would Sell Confidential Data
Those who said they were willing to sell the data would do so for as little as between $500 and $1,000. Alexandra Wilson Pecci reports: Patients trust their healthcare providers to keep their data safe, but according to a new survey, that trust might sometimes be misplaced. The Accenture survey found that nearly one in…
Regulatory Gap: Cybersecurity at K-12 Schools
Nicole Della Ragione and Leora F. Ardizzone report: While data breaches at Equifax, Yahoo, Anthem and Target have made the national news, data breaches at school districts are not as widely publicized. Schools are a treasure trove of children’s personally identifiable information (PII) (e.g., name, address, Social Security number) and protected health information (PHI), as…
Amazon Releases New Guidance on AWS and FERPA
Dian Schaffhauser reports: More than two years after issuing guidance on FERPA compliance and Amazon Web Services, Amazon has updated the whitepaper to lay out the company’s “shared responsibility model” and provide specific guidance on 24 different AWS services. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, in general, calls for schools and agencies to “reasonably…