Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA. HIPAA is regulatory guidance to ensure Patient Health Information (PHI) is protected in specific entities, mainly healthcare facilities, and healthcare admin support institutions, for the transfer and flow of health information. How has the HIPPA management challenge increased? To review, in 2021, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that every 10 seconds, 14 US citizens’ PHI is compromised either through data hacking or unauthorized disclosure through healthcare providers and support institution networks. That is close to 45 million US citizens each year. It’s a big and expensive problem for nearly every healthcare organization. Now according to the HIPAA journal, penalties and actions have increased overall recently, largely due to OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative, which was launched in late 2019. Since then, OCR has been cracking down on entities that have failed to provide individuals with timely access to their medical records and has increased enforcement efforts overall. But if there’s one area that few HIPAA security officers consider a high-risk failure point when it comes to data breaches, it’s in situations where...
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