Lisa Pierce Reisz, Member of the Firm in the Health Care & Life Sciences practice, in the firm’s Columbus office, was quoted in Axios, in “Cyber Crackdown Could Cost Hospitals Billions,” by Tina Reed.
Following is an excerpt:
Hospitals are bracing for a sweeping rewrite of federal health privacy rules that could result in more penalties for cybersecurity breaches and add billions of dollars in costs. …
Many regulators and many cybersecurity experts counter that most health care breaches stem from basic security failures rather than unavoidable sophisticated attacks.
In the proposal, HHS said the overhaul was designed to address "common deficiencies" federal regulators identify during HIPAA investigations.
"This is not new stuff if you're paying attention at all to your data," said Lisa Pierce Reisz, a lawyer at the firm Epstein Becker Green. "The HIPAA security rules are, frankly, catching up to what should be best practices for any type of industry."
