As the healthcare sector works to provide patients with secure access to their health information via smartphones and other devices, it must address critical identity and trust issues, says DirectTrust president and CEO Scott Stuewe.
Continuing its initiative to ensure patients can access copies of their medical records, as HIPAA requires, federal regulators on Friday issued their 16th settlement in a records access case - this one with Sharp Healthcare.
HHS has issued its 15th HIPAA settlement involving a patient's right to access their medical records. Will enforcement of HIPAA's records access provision be a priority for the Biden administration, as it was for the previous administration?
From both a regulatory and a security perspective, it’s not enough to simply perform a risk analysis. The HIPAA Security Rule requires and today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape demands that healthcare organizations respond to the risks identified appropriately and effectively.
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A recent breach involving a legacy electronic health record system that a small specialty medical practice used before becoming part of a larger healthcare entity shows the potential security risks that can follow mergers and acquisitions.
Micky Tripathi - a longtime health IT expert with deep roots in secure health information exchange and interoperability issues - will be the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
In the latest move in its ongoing initiative to enforce a HIPAA provision granting patients the right to access their records, federal regulators have slapped an Arizona integrated healthcare system with a $200,000 fine for failing to provide two individuals with timely records access.
A Baltimore medical center that suffered a ransomware attack a month ago and pulled its electronic health record system offline as a precaution is finally beginning to restore access to the system, the organization's CEO says. It's the latest example of how cyberattacks can derail EHRs.
The lingering aftershocks of an October ransomware attack and ongoing COVID-19 response challenges are forcing the University of Vermont Health Network to delay the next phases of an enterprisewide electronic health record rollout.
As federal regulators intensify their focus on compliance with requirements to provide patients with access to their health information, healthcare organizations need to sort through a variety of emerging challenges, says health information management and privacy expert Rita Bowen.
In the year ahead, healthcare organizations must be prepared to face an assortment of advancing security threats, including those that damage the integrity of critical patient data, says Rod Piechowski of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
Electronic health records potentially can be exposed in many ways. For example, in one recent incident, information on thousands of patients was apparently left exposed on an unsecured cloud server. And in another, critical security vulnerabilities in an open-source EHR system put patients' data at risk.
Federal regulators have issued detailed final rules containing provisions that allow hospitals and healthcare delivery systems to donate cybersecurity technology, such as software, hardware and services, to physician practices.
Federal regulators have issued their 12th enforcement action tied to a case involving a patient's right to access their records, as spelled out in HIPAA.
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