PHI breach research program launches
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and Shared Assessments Program have launched a project to explore the financial impact of unauthorized protected health information (PHI) access.
The ANSI/Shared Assessments PHI Project intends to identify frameworks for determining the economic impact of any disclosure or breach of protected patient data. The initiative unites ANSI's Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel with Shared Assessments' Healthcare Working Group.
Participants include data security companies, identity theft protection providers and research organizations, along with legal experts on privacy and security, standards developers and others, according to ANSI, a non-profit, New York City-based standards organization.
The ANSI/Shared Assessments PHI Project will culminate in a report targeted at those responsible for and entrusted with protecting and handling PHI, ANSI stated. The report will help inform the healthcare industry in making investment decisions to protect PHI, as well as improve responses when patient information is breached.
The ANSI/Shared Assessments PHI Project intends to identify frameworks for determining the economic impact of any disclosure or breach of protected patient data. The initiative unites ANSI's Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel with Shared Assessments' Healthcare Working Group.
Participants include data security companies, identity theft protection providers and research organizations, along with legal experts on privacy and security, standards developers and others, according to ANSI, a non-profit, New York City-based standards organization.
The ANSI/Shared Assessments PHI Project will culminate in a report targeted at those responsible for and entrusted with protecting and handling PHI, ANSI stated. The report will help inform the healthcare industry in making investment decisions to protect PHI, as well as improve responses when patient information is breached.