Regulatory Trend: Health Care Data Breach

A health care company experiences a data breach, what’s the regulatory and legal landscape?

• Civil lawsuits that lead to Class Action lawsuits, check.
• Penalties imposed by a regulatory agency, check.
  • Health and Human Services reached a $750,000 settlement with Cancer Care Group over a data breach involving HIPPA records. 

What can we learn from this incident?

• health care companies should  conduct risk analysis of tinformation security policies
• health care companies should have a written policy for taking hardware and disks containing protected health information out of the office

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