HealthcareInfoSecurity.com Week in Review for Friday, Feb. 18, 2011
This week's top news and views: New York Breach Affects 1.7 Million; Privacy Protections for Backup Files; Shifting to Hardware-Based Encryption.Here's what you'll find in our review of some of HealthcareInfoSecurity.com's most compelling content from the past week:
- Some 1.7 million individuals are being notified of a health information breach incident involving data from The New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.
- A blog notes this week's New York breach incident calls attention to the need to protect mobile storage media and check business associates' safeguards.
- In an interview, Hussein Syed of Saint Barnabas Healthcare System explains why the organization is shifting from software-based to hard-ware based encryption.
Please listen to this roundup and check out all of the week's news and views at HealthcareInfoSecurity.com.