Actually, failure to achieve compliance with HIPAA could find hospital executives and physicians facing fines of up to $25,000. Certain criminal violations could cost individuals and organizations $250,000 and up to 10 years in jail. This is quoted out of more than one reference.
Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA Information Security Engineer DP Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] 936.637.7977 ext. 121 ---------------------------------------- If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. -- former White House cybersecurity zar Richard Clarke -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gregory A. Gilliss Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [inbox] Re: [Full-Disclosure] EULA Okay, this is from my girlfriend, so flame her if it's wrong :-) Basically, a HIPAA compliant hospital/practice/etc. that is found to be in violation of, say, the regs on software change control, can be fined up to US$ 10,000 per violation. I would guess that tha *could* be construed as "per personal computer" if they wanted to be dicks about it... But, it gets better...if they hospital/practice/etc that has been inspected and cited doesn't comply with the violated HIPAA regs, they can be closed down. BAM! In practice I do not think that this has happened (yet) because the whole HIPAA thing is so new. However if you look at it from the security perspective, I expect that M$ legal will be amending their existing EULA for health care providers as soon as they read about this... G On or about 2003.09.09 14:08:04 +0000, David Hayes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > So, if a HIPAA site uses Windows and accepts the SP3 EULA, they're > screwed. If a HIPAA site uses Windows and does not accept the SP3 > EULA, they're screwed. > > Logical conclusion, if a HIPAA site uses Windows, they're screwed. > Thus they should use a different OS? > > -- > David Hayes Network Security Operations Center MCI Network Svcs > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] vnet: 777-7236 voice: 972-729-7236 > > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:13:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 08:43:14 PDT, D B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > does the EULA of Microsoft violate lawyer client > > > privilege ..... as in if my lawyer is using windows > > > is he violating my rights > > > > I can't speak for the legal profession, but the SP3 EULA (the one where you agree to > > allow Microsoft to install, without warning or notification, anything labeled a "security > > patch", even if it breaks 3rd party software), is known to be very bad mojo for sites > > covered by HIPPA, because it cedes software change control. > > > > Of course, if you fail to agree to the EULA and you're a HIPPA site, you're still screwed > > because then you can't install post-SP3 patches. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html -- Gregory A. Gilliss Telephone: 1 650 872 2420 Computer Engineering E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Security ICQ: 123710561 Software Development WWW: http://www.gilliss.com/greg/ PGP Key fingerprint 2F 0B 70 AE 5F 8E 71 7A 2D 86 52 BA B7 83 D9 B4 14 0E 8C A3 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
