While cyber crime continues to grow across industries, medical identity theft and medical data breaches are rising at a disproportionate rate. And though all...
The 17th annual Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) Compliance Institute Conference took place in National Harbor, MD and was attended by healthcare personnel and...
Outsourcing can be risky business. The Ponemon Institute reports that 65% of companies who outsourced work to a vendor have had a data breach...
Since stricter regulations were imposed in 2009, the healthcare industry’s track record on patient data protection and security has made very little improvement according...
As medical data breaches continue to spike, the federal government is seeking remedies to try and prevent medical identity theft. Nearly 21 million Americans...
Medical identity theft is no longer some obscure phrase spoken primarily in data security circles. It’s quickly becoming a household term for millions of...
The latest Ponemon Institute Medical Identity Theft survey reflects the classic good news, bad news scenario. The good news is that more consumers understand...
Don’t expect medical breaches and healthcare fraud to drop off the radar anytime soon. Here’s why. First, the number of breaches in the industry...
Say goodbye to bulky manila folders. Today’s healthcare organizations are zipping through medical histories and writing prescriptions using mobile devices. But the new found...
Experian will be at the annual HCCA 2012 Compliance Institute conference at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. This conference offers an important opportunity to...
It’s no secret that healthcare data breaches are steadily on the rise. As technology has modernized healthcare, it has also made healthcare more vulnerable...
According to Ponemon Institute’s Second Annual Survey on Medical Identity Theft, we estimate that more than 1.49 million Americans have been targeted by this...