BEAVERTON, Ore., July 21 /PRNewswire/ — Whenever there is a
security breach of any size involving protected health information
(PHI), the healthcare industry is now required under the HITECH Act
to complete an incident-specific risk assessment. ID
Experts®, the leader in comprehensive data breach solutions
that deliver the most positive outcomes, today announced
RADAR—Risk Assessment Documentation and Reporting—the
industry’s first expert software tool to measure an incident’s risk
index (IRI) by combining the severity of the episode and the
sensitivity of the exposed data to quantify the incident’s overall
harm threshold. Designed for healthcare providers, HIPAA
covered entities, and their business associates, RADAR was
developed to efficiently and consistently meet all of the
requirements for complying with the HITECH Act data breach
notification provisions for security and privacy breach incident
harm threshold assessment, documentation and reporting.
Security breaches are now commonplace in healthcare; more than
55 were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) in the first six months of 2010. In fact, healthcare is
the second most breached industry, according to the Identity Theft
Resource Center. And security breaches, whether digital- or
paper-based, can happen at any given moment—physical theft of
a laptop from an employee’s car, deliberate abuse of system access,
misdirected faxes and emails, malware attacks, unintentional human
error, unauthorized access, a lost backup drive.
Additionally, the future of healthcare dictates the use of
electronic medical records, raising fresh concerns of protecting
patient privacy, PHI threats and medical identity theft.
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