Senator: HHS Is Not Doing Enough To Protect HIPAA-Covered Records

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), co-chair of the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus, said HHS isn’t doing enough to protect health records covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and called on the administration to describe how it will prevent health record breaches after a massive exposure of health records occurred in September. A report found an unsecured picture archiving server exposed the private medical images of millions of Americans this fall, as well as identifying information. In a letter sent...