Common Compliance Areas

• Author: Rachel V. Rose - Jonathan P. Tomes - Lance H. Rose
• Pages: 15-25

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In April of 2014, the United States Department of Jus-

tice’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a

notication, Health Care Systems and Medical Devices at

Risk for Increased Cyber Intrusions for Financial Gain.

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This publication highlighted some compliance areas for

consideration in light of the increase in the black mar-

ket sales of protected health information (PHI) obtained

from electronic health records (EHRs). Citing an EMC2/

RSA white paper, the FBI alerted consumers that “[c]yber

criminals are selling the information on the black market

at a rate of $50 for each partial EHR, compared to $1 for

a stolen social security number or credit card number.

EHR can then be used to le fraudulent insurance claims,

Common Compliance

Areas

“The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve

redened cloud computing to include everything that we already

do. . . . The computer industry is the only industry that is more

fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I

have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete

gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?”

—Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle

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