Small, rural hospitals that lack the resources to conduct a thorough risk assessment should seek out grants to fund hiring outside experts to complete the task, one hospital CEO advises.
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Healthcare organizations need to develop a better understanding of how encryption fits as one of many components in a broad security strategy, says Mac McMillan, CEO at CynergisTek.
Researchers soon will offer recommendations on best practices for de-identifying data for research studies to protect patient privacy, a security issue highlighted in the HITECH Act.
A governmentwide coordination council soon will make recommendations on healthcare security issues, said David Blumenthal, the Department of Health and Human Services' national coordinator for health information technology.
Federal officials are still months away from submitting an overdue report to Congress on privacy and security requirements for personal health records vendors, which are not covered by HIPAA.
For the second time in recent weeks, organizations with ties to the Mayo Clinic have announced staff firings as a result of inappropriate access to confidential personal health information.
Hospitals are reaching different conclusions about whether biometrics technology needs to be paired with single sign-on systems to provide physicians and nurses with easier, yet more secure access to electronic health records.
Looking for a checklist of common-sense steps federal regulators should take to ensure the privacy and security of patient information? Look no further.
Healthcare organizations need to improve the methods they use to objectively assess the severity of a security incident and whether it should be reported, says David Parks, a privacy officer and attorney.
One of the nation's largest healthcare systems is ramping up its information security efforts as it spends $1.3 billion to implement comprehensive electronic health records and related technologies.
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