Hospitals must create detailed social media security policies to help ensure personal health information never gets posted, says Sharon Finney, corporate data security officer at Adventist Health System.
Faced with a batch of bad publicity about healthcare information security, the Department of Veterans Affairs has launched an effort to help polish its image.
A California hospital will fire five employees and discipline another because they used social media to post personal discussions about hospital patients.
Although certain smaller healthcare organizations have a very good shot of winning an exemption to the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule, larger organizations should be working on compliance.
Think twice the next time a contact tries to "friend" you on Facebook or "follows" you on Twitter. It may turn out to be an undercover fed looking to scrutinize your employment history or examine your personal references.
When it comes to sizing up healthcare information security risks, peer-to-peer networks, designed for sharing music and videos, probably aren't on the priority list. But perhaps they should be.
Social networking can provide physicians with an effective way to communicate with patients without raising security concerns, says Jeff Livingston, M.D.
Officials with the HHS Office for Civil Rights shed some light on a number of security-related topics at a conference the office co-sponsored May 11-12 in the nation's capital. For example, Susan McAndrew, OCR's deputy director for privacy, revealed that the random HIPAA compliance audits called for under the HITECH...
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