As regular readers may recall, I had raised some concerns about Henry Schein Dental claiming its Dentrix G5 product provided “encryption” after NIST had declared in 2013 that it wasn’t encryption but only weak data obfuscation. And I was pleased when Dentrix reconsidered their position after my blog post and decided to re-brand G5 as providing…
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NIST releases final voluntary cybersecurity framework
Patrick Ouellette reports: Following months of feedback and different tweaks, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finally issued its voluntary cybersecurity framework. The release completes the year-long NIST public-private effort and a key part of the Executive Order on “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity” that President Obama announced in the 2013 State of the Union….
California Dept. of Public Health notifies some clients of privacy breach
Under California state law, health care providers and laboratories are required to submit confidential information about many communicable and a few non-communicable health conditions to public health agencies to enable disease prevention activities. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE) is the system used for this disease reporting. And…
Google cloud gets on board with HIPAA
Erin McCann reports: To all the developers building applications in the cloud that need to comply with HIPAA privacy rules: You’ve just gained a big ally. Internet behemoth Google recently announced its cloud platform will now be HIPAA-friendly and will support business associate agreements going forward. Read more on Healthcare IT News.
U. Of Miami Health System sued over missing records, but is lawsuit a non-starter?
It seems like only yesterday we first learned of a breach involving the University of Miami Health System (UHealth) and an unnamed storage vendor. Oh, wait. It was. Notification letters went out to patients on or about February 3, and a potential class action lawsuit was filed in federal court in Florida yesterday. Having skimmed the…
Update: iPharmacy App fixed
Appthority, who had given iPharmacy a negative review in December because of risky app behaviors impacting consumer privacy, has posted an update: Now, we’re delighted to report that the latest version of iPharmacy has fixed those risky app behaviors. The developer of iPharmacy took these issues seriously, and worked closely with Appthority to verify the…