We have been involved in several situations lately with security incidents where we ask our clients for the final executed contract with the vendor that we believe caused the incident, but the contract that we receive has not been fully executed by both parties. Without getting into the legal implications of not having a fully
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VA OIG reports patient data at risk with vendor
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Health Information Privacy
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Inspector General recently issued a report, following a complaint that the VA Palo Alto Health Care System put veterans’ health information at risk when it allowed personnel of a vendor to have access to VA patient information without appropriate background investigations or appropriate privacy and security awareness…