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Subject: [ISN] Factoring new technologies into healthcare risk analysis
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2014-02-27 7:11:05
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By Patrick Ouellette
Health IT Security
February 26, 2014
The HIMSS14 Conference down in Orlando this week will present an
opportunity for vendors of all different sizes and specialties to display
their offerings to their user audience. New technologies are being
announced on what seems like an hourly basis and organizations are
implementing them with hopes of efficiency, compliance and better patient
care. Simultaneously, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is in the early
stages of determining the scope of its 2014 HIPAA audits has made it
abundantly clear that covered entities and business associates (BAs) use
of risk analysis will factory heavily into the audits.
Organizations shouldn't rely solely on new products to make them HIPAA
compliant, nor should they avoid technology that will help secure patient
data more efficiently and effectively. Achieving equilibrium between the
two ends of the spectrum is the best-case scenario when conducting a risk
analysis, according to David Holtzman, CynergisTek Vice President of
Privacy. Holtzman and Mac McMillan will present at HIMSS14 today at 10
a.m. on "Understanding Risk Analysis".
HealthITSecurity.com asked Holtzman how new technologies such as virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI) or other virtualization technologies that can
help take physical storage of data on devices out of the equation should
impact organizations' views on risk analysis. Holtzman explain that even
though new technology requires a different set of considerations, the need
for risk analyses remains the same.
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