Using DLP to comply with new HIPAA policies
There was a great article earlier this month, written by Elisabeth Horwitt, posted on searchhealthit.techtarget.com titled “Using Data Loss Prevention Software to Comply with new HIPAA Policies“. The piece highlighted one organization, Cascade Healthcare Community (CHC), and how it was using DLP as a means of monitoring and enforcing security policies organization wide.
It was interesting that the piece quoted the Ponemon Institute LLC security survey in which 540 healthcare IT practitioners from organizations with an average of 1,000 employees, 61% of respondents believe their employers lack the resources to meet the new HITECH privacy and data security requirements.
However, with the Feb. 17th deadline for the HITECH Act’s new provisions for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Code Green Networks is seeing more and more healthcare organizations taking action to secure their patients’ sensitive information. We will continue to watch to see how this one develops.