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Most business continuity and disaster recovery consultants have observed the absence of proper contingency planning and preparedness in most organizations that is the most essential component to address and survive any unwarranted risk or security breach that takes place. In the recent past, industry verticals such as IT, telecom, manufacturing, petrochemical, energy and utility power […]

Most organizations today are trying hard to balance between communicating and collaborating with partners, customers etc., and protecting sensitive or confidential data. Data protection is no longer a matter of strategic choice. It is a regulatory requirement, and every organization has to take definite measures to safeguard data. While on one side regulatory requirements make […]

To protect patient health information (PHI) from access by unauthorized entities, The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted. With the advancement in technology, patient data has now become extensively digitized. Hence, it has become important to safeguard the privacy of patient health information. All medical providers have to adhere to the data […]

According to FBI, healthcare frauds cost the country an estimated $80 billion a year. This indicates that personal health information of a large section of the people is under great risk of being misused for fraudulent activities. Even though medical practitioners take all the necessary steps to protect the interests of the patients, there are […]

HITECH is a re-defined and stricter version of HIPAA, i.e. the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, established in 1996. Since the time of its inception,it is mandatory for every health organization/medical institution to comply with it. Congress introduced this act to secure the health insurance rights of workers. HIPAA and its concerns The major […]