Data Security Breaches in the Healthcare Sector
Desiree Moore, Gina Bertolini, and Jackie Hoffman discuss the increasing impact of data security incidents and security breaches on the healthcare sector. They define what qualifies under HIPAA as a protected health information breach, discuss the importance of outside counsel in security incidents, review the timeline of reporting a breach to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and provide a road map on to how to manage a security incident from start to finish.