Ring in the new year: Privacy and security tips and strategies for 2015
HIM-HIPAA Insider, January 12, 2015
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- Focus on information security. Covered entities (CE) and business associates should focus on changing their information security perspective in 2015. Don't look at it as a compliance issue, but rather a cost of doing business, says Chris Apgar, CISSP, president of Apgar & Associates, LLC, in Portland, Oregon.
- Implement multifactor authentication. As healthcare organizations rely more heavily on remote access to systems, their need for multifactor authentication increases. "Even though organizational password standards are improving, passwords have inherent security limitations," says Kate Borten, CISSP, CISM, founder of The Marblehead Group in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Rather than permitting static, user-chosen passwords, make an effort to strengthen authentication this year by requiring two-factor token and PIN solutions for system access, says Borten.
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