Mandatory Password Policy

The password policy has been modified to increase length and complexity requirements from eight character passwords made up of only upper and lowercase characters to twelve character passwords including numbers and special characters. Even complex eight character passwords can be cracked using modern tools (Murphy, 2015). To most effectively protect and safeguard data as required by HIPAA, the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA) and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), passwords must be long.

The plan GHCC has drafted involves using their clinical data repository (CDR) as a basis for their EHR system. During this process Sarah noticed some troubling practices regarding the use of passwords in her facility. Five hundred passwords had been assigned to grant access to the CDR, around half of the passwords were inactive and many active passwords were openly shared among employees. Physicians didn’t see a problem with leaving their passwords taped to terminals, or sharing their passwords with residents. Sarah, drawing from HIPAA regulations and

The good news is that there are ways to prevent these breaches from happening altogether. The government has created laws to help fix these breaches, and to punish those who intentionally steal private information. These laws are HIPAA and HITECH. HIPAA created security for the exchange of medical information (US Dept of Health 2002). When someone goes to a hospital or doctor’s office and they are asked sign a document about whether or not they can release medical information to other doctors or hospitals, this is HIPAA in effect. The individual chooses whether or not they want their information to be sent anywhere else. This law makes the medical facilities accountable for protecting all medical information. HITECH was put into effect for

Data security is used to prevent anything that is unauthorized, and it helps to protect all of the data from any corruption. Almost daily, media reports highlight the failure of health care organizations to safeguard the privacy and security of patient data, whether electronic or paper. Preventing data breaches has become more complex, and at the same time, the fines being levied against health care organizations for violating the Health Insurance, (Zamosky, 2014).# In this paper, I will discuss the security measures, how the security measures used and how well did the security measure work.

With today’s advancement in technology, most hospitals have developed a data security plan to ensure that patient data is being handled correctly and is only viewed by authorized personnel. Hospitals can keep unauthorized personnel from viewing patient information by setting up individual passwords (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2013) only allowing those employees to view the patient’s information for them to complete their job task. When an employee is entering information into the system, it needs to be in real time as much as possible to keep human errors from occurring and for a correction to be made there will need to be a note attached to

Secondly, healthcare organizations should inoculate yourself by having a solid data encryption system. There are different types of data encryption for different kind of data. When the data is at rest, data encryption can be employed in multiple locations and cover structured and unstructured data. The only way to truly be safe is to encrypt the data itself. With the value of data changing over time, new data will require an immediate and new data encryption plan. When the data is in motion, it is easy for hackers to

Hospital and health facility administrators face hardened criminals who hack medical records with ever-increasing sophistication. Hackers gain access to critical information, such as medical claims, financial data, Social Security numbers and credit card data that enable identity theft, credit card fraud and other privacy breaches. One of the major security failures in the news was the CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield attack that exposed 1.1 million of its members to thefts of their personal information.[1] Combined with high-profile breaches at Anthem and Premera Blue Cross, the breach illustrates the changing role of medical administrators

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In efforts to strengthen HIPAA compliance, audits are being performed more frequently (Solove, 2013). In order to improve compliance among healthcare-related facilities and companies, it is suggested that they adhere to risk assessments, continue security incident planning, enhance employee training, and continue updating security and privacy policies and procedures (Solove, 2013). It was reported in 2013 that 52% of patient information breaches were due to data theft, with this increasing number of privacy incidents compliance must continue to be

Automation and interconnections with information in their healthcare environments need increasing support, security measures need to be implemented without disrupting the workflow of approved users, costs associated with data breaches and damage to their reputation need to be avoided. IT budgets constraints also impose limitations in many healthcare institutions. Compliance with security and privacy related regulations in healthcare and making sure what policies and standards should be implemented requires solutions that clearly address security challenges so that they can be integrated into a healthcare institution’s existing infrastructure and business practice. As data is transmitted across countless environments and is stored on an ever-expanding grouping of endpoint and storage devices such as computers, laptops, and removable storage devices, it will become evident that there will be a need for strong encryption. Under the HITECH Act and comparable state laws, encrypted data that is received or acquired by unauthorized persons through a lost or stolen electronic device or an errant email, is typically not considered a breach. However, healthcare institutions need to determine the level of encryption they should adopt. For example, a hospital could decide where there is the greatest risk of information loss (patient data in email messages or on storage drive) that is not on internal

The breach of patients’ confidential information does not only jeopardize our reputation and reduce the public trust in our organization, it could also lead to severe financial consequences. Under HIPAA law, if an organization is found guilty of unauthorized disclosure of patient medical record, they could face prison time harsh privacy violation penalty. We are sure that none of us want this to happen to our organization. So how can we prevent medical record security leak and better protect our patients’ privacy while also providing the best care possible to all our patients? The following guidelines and

Regulation placed upon the healthcare system only seek to improve safety and security of the patients we care for. The enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and the enactment of Meaningful Use Act the United States government has set strict regulations on the security of health information and has allotted for stricter penalties for non-compliance. The advancement of electronic health record (EHR) systems has brought greater fluidity and compliance with healthcare but has also brought greater security risk of protected information. In order to ensure compliance with government standards organizations must adapt

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In light of available security measures and their widespread acceptance within the information security community, there is no excuse for healthcare organizations to fail in fulfilling their duty to protect personal patient information. Guaranteeing the confidentiality and privacy of data in healthcare information is crucial in safeguarding the data of patients as there should be a legal responsibility to protect medical records from unauthorized access.