United States:
OCR Issues Guidance On Unpatched Software Risks To ePHI
25 October 2018
by
Jeremy S. Close
,
Meredith Collier
,
David R. Coogan
,
Jeffrey Scott Connell
,
Jennifer Everett
,
Nicolas Hidalgo
,
Laura Lim
,
Daniel McLoon
,
Mary Alexander Myers
,
Mauricio Paez
,
Nicole Perry
,
Aaron Tso
,
Anand Varadarajan
and
Richard Johnson
Jones Day
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In June, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services'
Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") issued guidance on reducing risks that
software poses to electronic protected health information
("ePHI"), such as installing patches or restricting
network access as appropriate on all types of devices that store
ePHI, including phones, computers, servers, and routers. The OCR
pointed to the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team and
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
("HIPAA") Administrative Safeguards as additional
resources.
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