HIPAA Breach Report for October 2017

An Analysis of HIPAA Breach Data

As software developers, we have a responsibility to protect our user’s data. When this data is protected health information (PHI), breaches can have serious financial and reputational consequences. The goal of this research is to analyze trends in breaches of PHI that point to software design guidelines that can prevent or lessen the impact of breaches. We examine the US Office of Civil Rights ...

Protecting Health Information: the HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rules

Protecting Health Information: the HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rules

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Background: Fasciola hepatica is a helminth parasite of global importance in livestock, with major economic impact. However information on F. hepatica infections in Irish pasture-based dairy herds is limited. Therefore this study was conducted in order to determine the prevalence, seasonality and management factors associated with F. hepatica. A total of 319 Irish dairy herds were selected for ...

2017 Lecture 4 : October 9 , 2017

We consider a set of random variables in a particular relationship and its consequences for mutual information. An ordered tuple of random variables (X, Y, Z) is said to form a Markov chain, written as X → Y → Z, if X and Z are independent conditioned on Y. Here, we can think of Y as being sampled given the knowledge of X, and Z being sampled given the knowledge of Y (but not using the “history...