High-profile class action lawsuits filed in the wake of major health information breaches will prove to be a strong catalyst for ramped up data security, a panel of attorneys says.
President Obama's proposed fiscal 2013 budget would cut by 5 percent the budget for the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, which enforces HIPAA.
To build an effective information security program, healthcare organizations need to take seven essential steps, including updating a risk assessment, says consultant Tom Walsh.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference, to be held Feb. 20-24 in Las Vegas, will offer a wealth of educational content on privacy and security issues.
Healthcare information security thought-leaders offer eight insights on how to prevent breaches, based, in part, on lessons learned from the major incidents reported so far.
Healthcare breach statistics reflect an unfortunate trend: "IT security has not really kept pace with the progress that's been made in the adoption of electronic health records," says Dan Berger, CEO of Redspin.
Building public trust that electronic health records will remain private is essential to the success of federally funded efforts to boost EHRs and health information exchange.
One of the most important healthcare information breach prevention steps is to safeguard mobile devices and limit the data stored on them, says attorney David Szabo.
The extensive news media coverage of a 911 emergency call about actress Demi Moore is calling attention to an important issue: The need to protect privacy.
For Healthcare providers, archiving electronic content is a critical best practice that every organization should follow. It not only assures that you meet your legal obligations to retain patient and client information, it is necessary to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations. Surprisingly, some organizations...
Email is the single most important tool in helping employees get work done in organizations of all types, including Healthcare providers and others entities subject to HIPAA requirements. That's why outages of even a few minutes in length can create numerous problems for individual email users and organizations that...
Much more work needs to be done to build public trust in efforts to protect the privacy and security of electronic health records and the exchange of health information, according to a new report from The Bipartisan Policy Center.
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