NIST and HHS holding conference this month on protecting health data

NIST and the Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights will hold a conference Oct. 18-19 aimed at helping the health sector understand how to comply with regulations governing its management of personal data.

“This is a good opportunity to plug the OCR-NIST conference ... where you can show up” for guidance on how to use the National Institute of Standards and Technology's framework of cybersecurity standards for conducting a risk analysis, OCR Director Roger Severino said Friday at...