This blog post was written by our guest blogger Al Tripodi, Healthcare Administrative Assistant at Research & Marketing Strategies (RMS). Redspin, a leading provider of penetrating testing services and IT security audits, annually analyzes breaches that have been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).  This blog provides a summary of findings published Read more

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enacted in 1996, mandates standards-based implementation of security controls by all healthcare organizations that create, store or transmit electronic Protected Health Information (PHI) .  Further in May of 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a proposed rule, managed under Read more