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In this webinar "Data Breach: It Can Happen To You," hosted by the Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. (CAP), viewers will learn:
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Melvin Osswald, Vice President Program Underwriting, NAS Insurance — Ms. Osswald joined NAS in 2002 and specializes in health care, cyber liability, employment practice, directors and officers coverage. Ms. Osswald currently supports NAS’ reinsurance programs and oversees the underwriting and product development of Billing Errors and Omissions, Cyber Liability, Employment Practices Liability, and Directors and Officers programs created to address the new exposures facing health care providers. She has been featured as a guest speaker at various industry conferences addressing the evolving professional liability risks in health care, and served on the Steering Committee of the Southern California Chapter of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society.
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Security breaches have strong foot on healthcare industry this year. Nearly half of the organizations in healthcare were hit by security threats at least once this year and it is expected to increase in the forthcoming years.
The security breaches under HIPAA Violations could be classified as
• Stealth of Devices
• Process loopholes
• Employee Snooping
• Software defects
• Hacking
Reasons for the Popularity of Medical Record TheftOPSWAT
After a slew of data breaches in 2014, the FBI warned the healthcare industry that cyber-criminals would be directing more attention their way in 2015. The healthcare industry has become an increasingly valuable target for cyber thieves, and in some cases, a much easier target to attack, due to their often less than adequate investment in cyber security. What is it about the healthcare industry that has captured the cyber criminals' interest in the last few years?
This white paper covers various topics including industry data breach statistics, the value of credit card data versus medical record data, healthcare spending on cyber security and the impact of BYOD on industry vulnerability to data breaches. This white paper also highlights various solutions for protecting medical record data including multi-scanning, email security and the protection of endpoint devices.
As hospitals and health care systems continue to expand their digital collection and capabilities, surveys show that their security measures lag behind those of other industries. Hospitals’ weaknesses include their failure to assess the security of staffers’ mobile devices and of medical monitoring equipment that store patient identifiers as well as medical information. Physician groups represent another vulnerability because they often fail to do any security risk analysis.
This session will examine best practices that providers can implement to help keep data safe and hackers at bay.
Security breaches have strong foot on healthcare industry this year. Nearly half of the organizations in healthcare were hit by security threats at least once this year and it is expected to increase in the forthcoming years.
The security breaches under HIPAA Violations could be classified as
• Stealth of Devices
• Process loopholes
• Employee Snooping
• Software defects
• Hacking
Reasons for the Popularity of Medical Record TheftOPSWAT
After a slew of data breaches in 2014, the FBI warned the healthcare industry that cyber-criminals would be directing more attention their way in 2015. The healthcare industry has become an increasingly valuable target for cyber thieves, and in some cases, a much easier target to attack, due to their often less than adequate investment in cyber security. What is it about the healthcare industry that has captured the cyber criminals' interest in the last few years?
This white paper covers various topics including industry data breach statistics, the value of credit card data versus medical record data, healthcare spending on cyber security and the impact of BYOD on industry vulnerability to data breaches. This white paper also highlights various solutions for protecting medical record data including multi-scanning, email security and the protection of endpoint devices.
As hospitals and health care systems continue to expand their digital collection and capabilities, surveys show that their security measures lag behind those of other industries. Hospitals’ weaknesses include their failure to assess the security of staffers’ mobile devices and of medical monitoring equipment that store patient identifiers as well as medical information. Physician groups represent another vulnerability because they often fail to do any security risk analysis.
This session will examine best practices that providers can implement to help keep data safe and hackers at bay.
This white paper discusses the various cyber threats targeting healthcare organizations and the challenges security professionals face in securing access to protected health information.
Protecting ePHI: What Providers and Business Associates Need to KnowNetwork 1 Consulting
HIPAA defined 18 Protected Health Information (PHI) identifyers. Electronic PHI (ePHI) is the computer version of PHI. What are the risks of not protecting ePHI? And what are the best practices and tips for protecting ePHI.
“Many organizations security defences have been smacked Their earned reputation within a flash have been jacked Heartless jokes on them by others also have been cracked How come they’re sure that their firms haven’t been hacked?"
This presentation discusses how to comply with HIPAA and HITECH privacy laws. Learn key terms such as Protected Health Information, the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule as well as major changes brought by HIPAA and HITECH.
Universal Unique Patient Information Identifier UUPIIFrank Avignone
While there is merit to both sides of the privacy argument there is no longer any argument that could withstand scrutiny against a universal way to identify individuals longitudinal health information and to make that data available both in a de-identified fashion for global population health management efforts and an identified fashion for routine and emergent health services. This academic work will make arguments for the Universal Unique Patient Information Identifier UUPII from technology integration, financial implications, patient safety and legal perspectives supporting a combination of techniques that will provide scalability and flexibility that other national systems such as the Social Security Number could achieve. The bulk of the arguments will focus on the Risk, Compliance, and regulatory perspectives that support the rational for a safe, secure and private universal unique patient information identifier.
Data Privacy: What you should know, what you should do!
CSMFO Data Privacy in the Governmental Sector, Local Government. Data Privacy Laws, PCI, Breaches, AICPA – Generally Accepted Privacy Principles
David Grislis of Narragansett, Rhode Island shares a new story on National Adoption Month. Enjoy the presentation and please reach out with any questions.
This white paper discusses the various cyber threats targeting healthcare organizations and the challenges security professionals face in securing access to protected health information.
Protecting ePHI: What Providers and Business Associates Need to KnowNetwork 1 Consulting
HIPAA defined 18 Protected Health Information (PHI) identifyers. Electronic PHI (ePHI) is the computer version of PHI. What are the risks of not protecting ePHI? And what are the best practices and tips for protecting ePHI.
“Many organizations security defences have been smacked Their earned reputation within a flash have been jacked Heartless jokes on them by others also have been cracked How come they’re sure that their firms haven’t been hacked?"
This presentation discusses how to comply with HIPAA and HITECH privacy laws. Learn key terms such as Protected Health Information, the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule as well as major changes brought by HIPAA and HITECH.
Universal Unique Patient Information Identifier UUPIIFrank Avignone
While there is merit to both sides of the privacy argument there is no longer any argument that could withstand scrutiny against a universal way to identify individuals longitudinal health information and to make that data available both in a de-identified fashion for global population health management efforts and an identified fashion for routine and emergent health services. This academic work will make arguments for the Universal Unique Patient Information Identifier UUPII from technology integration, financial implications, patient safety and legal perspectives supporting a combination of techniques that will provide scalability and flexibility that other national systems such as the Social Security Number could achieve. The bulk of the arguments will focus on the Risk, Compliance, and regulatory perspectives that support the rational for a safe, secure and private universal unique patient information identifier.
Data Privacy: What you should know, what you should do!
CSMFO Data Privacy in the Governmental Sector, Local Government. Data Privacy Laws, PCI, Breaches, AICPA – Generally Accepted Privacy Principles
David Grislis of Narragansett, Rhode Island shares a new story on National Adoption Month. Enjoy the presentation and please reach out with any questions.
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Recently image morphing is becoming a forefront subject and is attracting the attention of researchers. The motivation underpinning in exploring mage morphing is that it is producing wonderful effects on photographs and in film industries. Various morphing algorithms are been devised to cater for the challenges posed by new image requirements. So far in literature, warping algorithm has been applied individually to produce pleasing effects. However, the amalgamation of several algorithms using appropriate proportions has been put aside. In this paper, analysis of the mixture of morphing techniques has been applied on images to produce caricatures where the contours are cautiously preserved. The aesthetic effects of this newly devised amalgam algorithm is desirable to produce outstanding effects on face images.
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By including HR threat assessments as part of your risk management program, your organization could predict, prevent, and mitigate damage from any human capital threat.
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Information security threats
Khaleem Pasha Mohammad
Campbellsville University
Introduction
The development of technology has been greatly embraced in hospitals, saved innumerable lives, and improved the quality of care provision. Not exclusively has technology changed patients knowledgeable and of their families but further consideration has had a significant impact on the strategy and practices of practitioners. One in every five of the areas that have greatly embraced technology is care data. Technology has helped inside the treatment of care records through the introduction of electronic health records, that's exchange paper records. With the availability of electronic care record (EHR) systems, a nurse can merely check for patients’ allergies, case history, weight, age, and prescription through the press of a button. However, the most quantity as institutions are clasp technology to stay up their health records, there are series of risks associated with these technologies. Since the start of technology inside the upkeep of care records, the care trade has been a primary target for cyber crimes. The motives behind cyber-attacks on care are clear as insurance firms, hospitals, care clinics, and totally different care suppliers keep health records that contain valuable information. The use of America Department of Health and Human Services for Civil Rights has acknowledged that over 100 million people square measure suffering from care data security breach. Gregorian calendar month 2015 was a foul month for electronic data jointly of the most important hacks on health care records on Anthem Blue Cross resulting in over seventy-eight million patients’ health data was taken. The cyber-attack scarf sensitive data that contained social securities, names, and residential addresses of people. Constant year, Premera Blue Cross reported that a cyber-attack has exposed medical information of over eleven million customers. Back in 2011, over 4.9 million health records were taken electronically from Science Application International Corporation. These are few cases of a care data breach with sensitive data falling into the hands of third parties. In guaranteeing that there are privacy and security in care records, bureau insurance mobility and responsibility (HIPPA) is providing legislation that hospital and totally different institutions that handle patient’s data to adopt in guaranteeing that varied security measures are enforced in protecting data.
HIPPA and Security Compliance
As much as institutions are clasp technology in storing care data, it is vital for institutions like HIPPA to regulate these bodies to substantiate that shopper rights are protected. The HIPAA Security Rule provides that electronic records of patients got to be protected in any respect times from any unauthorized access nonetheless the information being at rest or in transit.
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Patient information recorded in electronic medical records is the most significant set of information of the healthcare system. It assists healthcare providers to introduce high quality care for patients. The aim of this study identifies the security threats associated with electronic medical records and gives
recommendations to keep them more secured. The study applied the qualitative research method through a case study. The study conducted seven interviews with medical staff and information technology technicians. The study results classified the issues that face electronic medical records into four main categories which were availability, accessibility, privacy, and safety of health information.
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Capstone Project
Yaima Ortiz
IDS-4934
March 1st, 2020
Abstract
Topic:
Privacy- What medical information should be confidential? Who, if anybody, should have access to medical records?
Thesis Statement
In healthcare centers and overall privacy is the right of every US citizen that should be protected in all its forms by the healthcare organization.
Rationale
1. The purpose of this paper is to identify why security measures are necessary to protect one’s privacy in the medical industry.
2. There are numerous laws, policies and healthcare organizational rules and regulations and statistics that would be helpful for conducting this research.
3. Privacy of a person whether this is me or you, is important then everything. I want to talk on this topic because I think most of us do not know what is happening to us.
4. I have selected textual analysis of books and available internet sources. The reason of this limited research methodology is that I cannot perform field study because of shortage of time.
Rough Draft Ideas
Identity theft in healthcare industry become a common practice and leads to information leakage that may destroy someone’s life. We can eliminate this human right violation by enforcing effective and practical laws. Healthcare organizations should understand their responsibilities and tighten security to protect information of patients.
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Overview of Privacy Protections with Respect to Medical Records 4
Data Breaches in the Healthcare Industry 5
Healthcare is the biggest Target for Cyber Attack 7
Penalties and Punishments for Hacking Personal Information 9
Penalties 9
Devastating Consequences of Healthcare Data Breaches 10
Conclusion 10
Recommendations 11
Bibliography 12
Introduction
While operating in healthcare organizations need to gather patient’s information that is mostly personal information. It is the moral and legal responsibility of health care organizations to protect the information of their patients and do not share it with people outside of the organization without the patient’s consent. Protecting patient’s information is a crucial element of respect and essential for patients' autonomy and trust in the organization — the US healthcare industry currently facing patient mistrust that is caused because of a lack of trust. When patients experience a lack of confidence they do not share their information with a healthcare professional that causes ineffective treatment. In a 2018 study, Levy, Scherer, Zikmund-Fisher, Larkin, Barnes, & Fagerlin concluded that approximately 81.1% of people withheld medically relevant information from their health-care providers. Patients fail to disclose medically relevant information in front of their clinicians undermine their health and cause patient harm (Levy, 2018).
There are numerous components of patient privacy in healthcare that are personal space, religious and cultural affiliations, physical privacy ...
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Capstone Project
Yaima Ortiz
IDS-4934
March 1st, 2020
Abstract
Topic:
Privacy- What medical information should be confidential? Who, if anybody, should have access to medical records?
Thesis Statement
In healthcare centers and overall privacy is the right of every US citizen that should be protected in all its forms by the healthcare organization.
Rationale
1. The purpose of this paper is to identify why security measures are necessary to protect one’s privacy in the medical industry.
2. There are numerous laws, policies and healthcare organizational rules and regulations and statistics that would be helpful for conducting this research.
3. Privacy of a person whether this is me or you, is important then everything. I want to talk on this topic because I think most of us do not know what is happening to us.
4. I have selected textual analysis of books and available internet sources. The reason of this limited research methodology is that I cannot perform field study because of shortage of time.
Rough Draft Ideas
Identity theft in healthcare industry become a common practice and leads to information leakage that may destroy someone’s life. We can eliminate this human right violation by enforcing effective and practical laws. Healthcare organizations should understand their responsibilities and tighten security to protect information of patients.
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Overview of Privacy Protections with Respect to Medical Records 4
Data Breaches in the Healthcare Industry 5
Healthcare is the biggest Target for Cyber Attack 7
Penalties and Punishments for Hacking Personal Information 9
Penalties 9
Devastating Consequences of Healthcare Data Breaches 10
Conclusion 10
Recommendations 11
Bibliography 12
Introduction
While operating in healthcare organizations need to gather patient’s information that is mostly personal information. It is the moral and legal responsibility of health care organizations to protect the information of their patients and do not share it with people outside of the organization without the patient’s consent. Protecting patient’s information is a crucial element of respect and essential for patients' autonomy and trust in the organization — the US healthcare industry currently facing patient mistrust that is caused because of a lack of trust. When patients experience a lack of confidence they do not share their information with a healthcare professional that causes ineffective treatment. In a 2018 study, Levy, Scherer, Zikmund-Fisher, Larkin, Barnes, & Fagerlin concluded that approximately 81.1% of people withheld medically relevant information from their health-care providers. Patients fail to disclose medically relevant information in front of their clinicians undermine their health and cause patient harm (Levy, 2018).
There are numerous components of patient privacy in healthcare that are personal space, religious and cultural affiliations, physical privacy.
Patient Privacy
Patient Privacy Issues
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Patient Privacy Issues
New technology has brought many benefits to the healthcare industry but it has also resulted in challenges involving keeping patient information private and confidential. As more and more healthcare facilities go digital the threat of the private patient record going public is an alarming problem. Not only do patients risk someone hacking into their private patient file there is also the risk of their information being sold. Patient privacy is no longer as secure as it was in the past with the written record. Keeping a patients record from being accessed requires the healthcare facility to take steps to properly secure this information. Even then this private information is at risk from internal and external sources at the healthcare facility.
One situation where the private information of the patient becomes vulnerable is a case where an employee sold patients private information for illegal gains. An employee at Howard University Hospital named Laurie Napier used her position as a hospital tech to access private hospital records and to sell them to criminals so they could be used for criminal purposes (Shultz, 2012). In this situation the employee was caught selling the private information of patients. This private information includes name, address, birth date, Medicare health numbers, and social security number. This private information can be used by criminals to create fraudulent accounts, open credit cards, and create new identities.
The employee was able to steal the private information of tens of thousands of patients because the patient files were password protected but the information was not encrypted to prevent theft. Not only did patients become vulnerable to fraud, the reputation of the healthcare facility also becomes damaged due to their inability to protect patient records. As a result of the illegal actions of Napier she was charged under the HIPPA law. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) privacy rule ensures the healthcare facility does not release the private information of the patient without their express permission.
The Privacy Rule is balanced so that it permits the disclosure of health information needed for patient care and other important purposes but also ensure this information is held in confidence (DHS, 2015). The Security Rule defines the necessary security safeguards required to be put into place by the healthcare facility, business associates, and healthcare clearinghouses that share patient’s healthcare information. When Laurie Napier stole the private information of over 34,000 patients she violated the privacy rights of the patients and broke the law. Her violation was criminal but they hospital was also at fault due to their failure to protect private patient information.
Prior to the Napier theft the hospital had a previous situation where another employee.
This white paper discusses the various cyber threats targeting healthcare organizations and the challenges security professionals face in securing access to protected health information.
Why merging medical records, hospital reports, and clinical trial data is a v...Arete-Zoe, LLC
Medical privacy and breaches of personal health information (PHI) has been a hot topic for several years. For the clinical trial industry, the main concerns are decline in recruitment resulting from lack of confidence in data handling and instances of breaches that affect data integrity that adversely affect NDA and MA applications in major markets, which precipitates administrative action taken by national regulators in response to local incidents.
European legislators rely extensively on administrative measures implemented by national competent authorities. Although specific and detailed EU-level legislation exists, specific information about data breaches, cases and incidents, volume and type of affected data, root causes and analysis of consequences is largely missing. According to Howard and Gulyas (2014), this lack of organized event records is currently an empirical obstacle but provides opportunity to generate new knowledge about data and privacy protection that could bolster future trial recruitment.
In the U.S., summary details of breaches that involved more than 500 individuals are available at the OCR portal called Wall of Shame for everyone to analyze. Disclosure obligations in HIPAA made the problem of data breaches in healthcare obvious and protection of the privacy of patients has been an important part of physicians’ code of conduct. This offers lessons learned to mitigate systemic vulnerabilities that undermine trial participation.
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Anthem Inc. HIPAA Violation
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Anthem Inc. HIPAA Violation
Case Analysis
Anthem, a healthcare insurance provider situated in the US, is among some of the organizations that have violated HIPAA laws. Based on OCR (2018) illustrations, the incorporation paid sixteen million US Dollars and committed to take extensive remedial measures to address alleged HIPAA breaches after a sequence of hacks resulted to the biggest infringement of U.S. health information in ever. An estimate of 79 million Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) which included name and medical IDs were stolen.
HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules Violated
Some of HIPAA regulations desecrated by Anthem Inc. included hackers (unauthorized persons) accessing PHI through Anthem’s database, failing to carry out a risk analysis as well as managing confidentiality, integrity and availability risks of PHI and failing to device defense mechanisms that wound ensure the discretion, integrity and availability of PHI. Additionally, ePHI belonging to the 79 million patients were not encrypted or Anthem didn’t apply equivalent measures that would help in preventing the hackers from accessing the data. The attacks began on 2014 and were discovered in 2015 and yet Anthem didn’t implement adequate access measures that would help in preventing ePHI from being accessed. Information stolen by hackers included the names of individuals and their health insurance IDs.
Penalties Imposed
Several penalties were imposed to Anthem Inc. including paying sixteen million Dollars to the office of civil rights (OCR) in the 2018. Also, because of the filed litigations and lawsuits following the breach, for patients whose health information was stolen the company had to pay one hundred and fifteen million Dollars. The total cost paid by Anthem Inc. for violating HIPAA privacy and security laws including HIPAA state laws was one hundred and seventy-nine million Dollars. The sanction included a $48.2 million cash penalty. OCR required Anthem Inc. to include preventive measures to enhance data security standards.
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Evaluating and monitoring of health system, mobilizing resources, and continuous professional development.
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1)Health data is sensitive and confidential; hence, it should .docxteresehearn
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Health data is sensitive and confidential; hence, it should be kept safe. Data security is one of the critical activities which has become challenging for many organizations (Frith, 2019). Due to technology advancements, people can save their health data online. Similarly, people are also able to share data with close friends or any other person of interest. Using online platforms to store the data has brought a lot of benefits. The primary benefit is the fact that individuals can share data with medical experts easily. By, this the medical experts will be able to assist the sick people if possible. The data is always accessible as long as one is authorized.
I read different articles that shared information concerning health data breaches. Various health organizations have been affected by data breaches (Garner, 2017). A good example is the University of Washington Medicine. This organization reported that 974,000 patients' data was affected. The attack was noticed by a patient who found some files containing personal information on public sites. The patient then notified the organization, which claimed that some employees made some errors, which led to the leakage. The files were accessible through Google, so the organization had to ask Google to remove the data. Fortunately, the files were removed from the search list, and this occurred in January 2019.
It was risky to let the files containing personal information available on the website (Ronquillo, Erik Winterholler, Cwikla, Szymanski & Levy, 2018). The organization was lucky that the data breach was not significant, and hence, the patients were not significantly affected. It is good to ensure that files containing health data are handled carefully to avoid some problems. In keeping the health data secure, it is good to ensure that the systems are well-protected. The systems can be protected by making use of firewalls which prevent unauthorized people from accessing them. During the data sharing process, a health organization should ensure that the information is encrypted. Encryption prevents unauthorized people from understanding the message that is being shared using different channels. Users should make sure that they use strong passwords.
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Protection of patient’s information is the top most priority of health care providers and professionals. Patient’s health information contains personal data and their health conditions hence the federal laws requires to maintain security and privacy to safeguards health information. Privacy, as distinct from confidentiality, is viewed as the right of the individual client or patient to be let alone and to make decisions about how personal information is shared (Brodnik, 2012). Health data is usually stored on paper or electronically, in both these ways it is important to respect the privacy of the patients and hence follow policies to maintain security and privacy rules.
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Modern medicine is facing a complex environment, not from medical technology but rather government regulations and information vulnerability. HIPPA is the government’s attempt to protect patient’s information yet this only addresses traditional record handling. The main threat is from the evolving security issues. Many medical offices and facilities have multiple areas of information security concerns. Physical security is often weak, office personnel are not always aware of security needs and application security and transmission protocols are not consistently maintained. Health insurance needs and general financial opportunity has created an emerging market in medical identity theft. Medical offices have the perfect storm of information collection, personal, credit, banking, health, and insurance. Thieves have realized that medical facilities have as much economic value as banks and the security is much easier to crack. Mostly committed by insiders, medical identity theft is a well-hidden information crime. In spite of its covert nature, the catastrophic ramification to the victims is overt. This information crime involves stealing patients’ records to impersonate the patients in an effort of obtaining health care services or claiming Medicare on the patients’ behalf. Unlike financial identity theft, there is a lack of recourse for the victims to recover from damages. Medical identity theft undermines the quality of health care information systems and enervates the information security of electronic patient record.
INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAN FOR A SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZED HOSPITALIJNSA Journal
Most small to medium health care organizations do not have the capability to address cyber incidents within the organization. Those that do are poorly trained and ill equipped. These health care organizations are subject to various laws that address privacy concerns, proper handling of financial information, and Personally Identifiable Information. Currently an IT staff handles responses to these incidents in an Ad Hoc manner. A properly trained, staffed, and equipped Cyber Incident Response Team is needed to quickly respond to these incidents to minimize data loss, and provide forensic data for the purpose of notification, disciplinary action, legal action, and to remove the risk vector. This paper1 will use the proven Incident Command System model used in emergency services to show any sized agency can have an adequate CIRT.
Why cyber-criminals target Healthcare - Panda Security Panda Security
The healthcare industry is very technologically advanced but it also has huge security flaws, making it an easy target for cyber-criminals. If we add this to the immense amount of highly sensitive information that is managed by hospitals, pharmacies and health insurance providers, plus the high price that it could be sold for on the black market where a medical history is much more valuable than a credit card, we are able to understand how this was the most attacked industry last year.
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3. The information in this presentation should not be
considered legal advice applicable to a specific situation.
Legal guidance for individual matters should be obtained
from a retained attorney.
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4. A Data Breach Is Not A Disaster. Mishandling It Is.
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5. Introduction:
Complexity of Cyber Threats has Grown Dramatically
US businesses face increasingly sophisticated threats that outstrip
traditional defenses
Economics of cybersecurity favor the attackers
Reputational harm is significant
Competing pressures within organizations
Deploy IT resources to mitigate risk as well as to advance the
required business technologies to service customers and compete
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6. Economic Motivation
Estimate 95% of attacks are economically motivated
Attempting to steal data
Corporate trade secrets
Personal information (Name/address/SS#/banking info)
Health insurance information
Medical history information
Employee records
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7. Advanced Persistent Threats – “High End Attacks”
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Ultra sophisticated teams of cyber criminals
Deploy increasingly targeted malware in multi staged stealth attacks
Goal – penetrate all of the perimeter defense systems
Intruders look at multiple avenues to exploit all layers of security
vulnerabilities until they reach their goal
Cyber security field consensus – criminals are ahead of the corporations
that need to defend themselves
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Vulnerability is not limited to External Threats -
“Low End Attacks”
Employees – poorly trained, not following required protocols,
disgruntled
Subcontractors and independent contractors
“BYOD” – bring your own device
Any party that the company connects to electronically creates a
vulnerability – vendor and partner management
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In the News
In 2013 and 2014, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) documented nearly
1,400 data breaches in the US, including:
Target – 110,000,000 Records Compromised
Anthem Breach – 78,800,000 Records Compromised (source: USA Today April 14, 2015)
Home Depot– 56,000,000 Records Compromised
IRS – 1,400,000 Records Compromised
J.P Morgan Chase – 1,000,000 Records Compromised
Saint Joseph Health System – 405,000 Records Compromised
University of Maryland – 309,079 Records Compromised
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In the News cont.
In 2013 and 2014, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) documented nearly
1,400 data breaches in the US, including:
Touchstone Medical Imaging (TN) – 307,528 Records Compromised
Sutherland Healthcare Solutions – 168,500 Records Compromised
Indiana University – 146,000 Records Compromised
Orthopaedic Specialty Institute (AL) – Iron Mountain 49,714 Records
Compromised
Office of Nisar Quraishi (NY) – 20,000 Records Compromised
Office of Dennis Flynn, M.D. (IL) – 13,646 Records Compromised
12. What is a Breach?
A breach is defined as an event in which an individual name plus Social
Security number (SSN), driver’s license number, medical record or a
financial record/credit/debit card is potentially put at risk.
Paper or Electronic records
Potential Security Threats
Compromise the integrity, security or confidentiality of information
Circumstances where a data breach may have happened or could
happen in the future. (e.g. lost flash drive with PII)
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Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) documented
783 U.S. data breaches in 2014, representing a 27.5%
increase over the number of breaches reported in
2013 *
42.5% of the breaches were in the
medical/healthcare industries.
Hacking incidents represented the leading cause
of data breach incidents, accounting for 29% of
the breaches tracked by the ITRC.
This was followed for the second year in a row by
breaches involving Subcontractor/Third Party at
15.1 %.
Number of Breaches is on the Rise
* http://www.idtheftcenter.org/ITRC-Surveys-
Studies/2014databreaches.html
14. Question
Are data breaches more likely to be caused by a hacker or
malware/virus penetrating the cyber defense?
Hacker
Malware/virus
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15. Claims – Source of Exposed Data
(source NetDiligence report 2014)
Percentage of Records Exposed by Cause of Loss
Hacker 74% Malware/Virus 23% Theft of Hardware All other
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17. Regulatory Climate
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
Act (HITECH)
Variety of State laws
18. Why are Healthcare Providers a Target?
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Privacy exposures:
Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Protected Health Information (PHI)
Medical records (electronic and paper)
Billing information (credit cards, addresses, bank information, etc.)
Insurance information
Social Security numbers
Employee information
Corporate/Financial information
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Sources of Exposure
Negligence & carelessness
Lost or stolen laptops & other portable devices
Improper disposal of records
Lack of system protections
Increased use of electronic databases
Outsourcing of services
Rogue employees
20. Costs of a Data Breach
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Our results show that the cost to respond
to a data breach is usually between $10-
$30 per record for breach response
services that include some legal expenses,
patient notification letters, call center
support, and credit monitoring services.
(Keep in mind this number is an average.
Costs can exceed $30 a record in some
cases. IT costs, Legal fees, and government
fines are additional.)
21. A Simplified View of a Data Breach
Handling the
Long-Term
ConsequencesManaging the
Short-Term
Crisis
Evaluation of
the Data Breach
Discovery of a
Data Breach
Forensic
Investigation and
Legal Review
Notification and
Credit Monitoring
Class-Action
Lawsuits
Regulatory Fines,
Penalties, and
Consumer Redress
Public Relations
Reputational
Damage
Income Loss
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Clinic hit with $150,000 HIPAA Penalty
Breach Investigation Triggers Resolution Agreement
A federal investigation of a relatively small breach has resulted in a financial penalty for a physician
group practice in Massachusetts. The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened an investigation of
APDerm upon receiving a report that an unencrypted thumb drive containing the electronic
protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 2,200 individuals was stolen from a vehicle of
one its staff members. The thumb drive was never recovered.
The investigation revealed that APDerm had not conducted an accurate and thorough analysis of the
potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality of ePHI as part of its security management
process. Further, APDerm did not fully comply with requirements of the Breach Notification Rule to
have in place written policies and procedures and train workforce members.
In addition to the $150,000 HIPAA Penalty, the settlement includes a corrective action plan requiring
APDerm to develop a risk analysis/ risk management plan to address and mitigate any security risks
and vulnerabilities, as well as to provide an implementation report to OCR.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights on Dec. 26, 2013 announced a
resolution agreement with Adult & Pediatric Dermatology, PC of Concord, Mass.
Cyber Liability Coverage Claims Example
(SOURCE: HHS.Gov, December, 2013)
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Hospital Notifies Six Years’ Worth of Patients After Breach
A stolen, unencrypted laptop computer has caused Gibson General Hospital in
Princeton, Ind., to notify all 29,000 patients treated during the past six years of a
breach of their protected health information.
The password-protected laptop was among the items stolen during a burglary of an
employee's home on Nov. 27, 2012, according to the hospital. Some employees are
permitted to bring home laptops; the employee required 24-hour access to the
electronic health records system, according to the hospital.
The laptop has not been found and the hospital cannot determine which patients had
information on it, so it is notifying all patients since January 2007 when the EHR was
implemented. But the clinical records contain names, addresses, Social Security
numbers and treatment details, among other information. There is no indication the
data has been accessed, according to a notice to patients.
Gibson General Hospital is offering affected patients one year of free credit monitoring
and identity theft protection services.
Cyber Liability Coverage Claims Example
(SOURCE: NAS Claims Department)
24. Breaches in the News
$50 Million Class Action Lawsuit Against Long Island Health System
Twelve people have filed a $50 Million class-action lawsuit against Long
Island Health System and North Shore University Hospital, where thieves
stole physical paper records called “face sheets” plus encrypted digital
files that contained patient information such as insurance numbers, Social
Security numbers, dates of birth, address and medical histories.
(Source: Modern Healthcare, Feb. 2013)
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$400,000 Penalty in HIPAA Case
An Idaho State University has agreed to pay $400,000 as part of a
resolution agreement stemming from an incident it reported in August
2011 that potentially could have exposed information on 17,500 patients at
the university’s Pocatello Family Medicine Clinic. Patient information was
vulnerable for at least 10 months because a firewall protecting a server was
disabled, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’
Office for Civil Rights.
(SOURCE: Government Information Security, May 2013)
Breaches in the News
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Three laptops stolen from New York podiatry office, 6,475 at risk
Nearly 6,500 patients of Sims and Associates Podiatry may have had
personal information compromised after three laptops containing the
patient data were stolen from the New York office. The types of personal
information at risk included names, addresses, Social Security numbers,
phone numbers, genders, ages, and personal health and insurance
information. (Also visit dates, vascular testing information, weights and
prescribes orthotics, x-ray dates and imaging…) A notification was posted
on the Sims and Associates Podiatry website
(SOURCE: Sims and Associates Podiatry, Important Security and Protection Notification, April, 2014)
Breaches in the News
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When evaluating your business’ exposure to a potential data breach, you
need to consider:
Type of information stored
System protections, including encryption
Employee access and education
Business associate agreements
In-house resources for the breach response plan/team
Cyber Liability Insurance coverage
All of the above
Question
28. Type of information stored
System protections, including encryption
Employee access & education
Business associate agreements
Breach response plan/team
Cyber Liability Insurance
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Risk Assessment
29. Four Basic Security Controls
Restricting user installation of applications (“whitelisting”)
Ensuring that the operations system is patched with current updates
Ensuring software applications have current updates
Restricting Administrative privileges
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CyberRisk Insurance - comprehensive data security and privacy insurance
Crisis Management Expenses and Breach Response: Retain legal, forensic and
public relations experts
Customer Notification Expenses and Customer Support Expenses: Mandated by
Federal and State laws
Security & Privacy Liability: Defense and settlement for lawsuits from third
parties
Privacy Regulatory Defense and Penalties: Regulatory protection
Cyber Terrorism: Loss of income due to attack on network from terrorists
Cyber Extortion: Extortion expenses and monies
Multimedia Liability: Defense and settlement for lawsuits from third parties for
copyright or trademark infringement, libel or slander, or plagiarism for online and
offline media
Network Asset Protection: Loss of income and reimbursement for costs to
replace data
Coverage Summary
31. Consider the Costs
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Cost to consult with an experienced attorney – Cost can range from $5,000 to
$50,000 depending on the scope and complexity of the breach.
IT Forensics – IT Forensic investigation costs can range from $5,000 to $100,000
+ depending on the circumstances.
Patient Notification – Plan on $1-3 per record depending on quantity.
Patient Call Center Support – The cost is usually between $5,000-$20,000,
depending on the circumstances.
Credit Monitoring – This costs between $10-$30 per individual that signs up for
the service.
Public Relations Expenses – Costs vary widely depending on the service provided
and on the size and scope of the breach.
32. Question
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Which of the following are important risk management steps?
Assign one person to be ultimately responsible for privacy and data security
Have a plan to address data security incidents
Determine where PHI or PII is stored
Conduct a risk assessment
Control vendors and business partners
Continuous workforce training
Annual update on company policy regarding privacy and compliance
All of the above
33. Cyber Liability Risk Management Website
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• Compliance materials by state
• Templates are provided to help
insured's implement policies and
procedures
34. Cyber Liability Risk Management Website
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• Summary of state specific law
for security breach notification
• Template of Business
Associates Agreement, Vendor
Agreement, etc.
35. Compliance Basics – 8 Point Compliance Checklist
And Procedures
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Assign ultimate privacy and data security responsibility to 1
person
Accountability
Focus
Prepare for data security incidents
Back up plan if network goes down
Restoration plan
Notification to CAP
36. Compliance Basics – 8 Point Compliance Checklist
And Procedures
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Determine where Personal Information is stored
Network
Back up tapes
Cloud
Downloaded onto portable devices / laptops
Paper files (what is at your house?)
Who has remote access? Downloaded files..
37. Compliance Basics – 8 Point Compliance Checklist
And Procedures
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Conduct a risk assessment
Identify areas of greatest vulnerability and address
these first
Encryption for portable devices
HIPAA compliance training
Patch management
38. Compliance Basics – 8 Point Compliance Checklist
And Procedures
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Mitigate against identified risks
Control your vendors and business partners
Look at contracts for indemnification
Control access; password management
Implement a continuous workforce training and awareness program
Training – at least annually; including all staff
Review and Update Company policy – at least annually
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Reduce Risk –
Utilize the Risk Management Website
Risk Assessment tools
Risk Management tips and Best Practices
Reduce Risk Easily – simple steps to do now
Be prepared – steps to take now
Policies – download
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Manage Breach- Responding to an Incident
Immediate Response – mitigate the potential damage to
patients by acting quickly
Breach Notification Requirements – must comply with
both Federal and State Law
Report Data Breach – insurance policy includes coverage
to retain counsel to advise on the proper response
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Summary
Proactive steps – critical to minimize and prevent
breaches
Encryption
Utilize the resources that CAP includes for all insured members
Training – both proactive and defense measure
Report Data Breach – insurance coverage includes
immediate breach response management
42. Thank You
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Chris Reese
Vice President, Director of Underwriting
Melvin Osswald
Vice President, Program Underwriting
www.nasinsurance.com