What if everyone that walked into your medical facility were potentially broadcasting unencrypted information to anyone interested that could pose a HIPAA risk for your facility? This is currently a reality, through the mobile MAC (media access control) address signal that every smartphone, tablet, and wearable device provides.
For almost 20 years, HIPAA has played a guiding role in addressing the importance of security and privacy of health data. Standards that are set by HIPAA are not meant to bog the system down, but rather to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the entire national health care system by ‘encouraging’ the increased standards […]
