Many physician group practices adopting their first electronic health records systems will have a lot of work to do when it comes to information security, a new survey confirms.
One of the many difficult challenges involved in devising federal regulations governing the privacy and security of personal health records is that so many different flavors of PHRs exist.
Only a few days remain to offer comments to two panels advising federal regulators on important issues that affect the privacy and security of electronic health records.
The level of application security threats is rising, but the level of response is not. "That's a serious disconnect," says Jeff Williams, chair of the OWASP Foundation.
Federal regulators received thousands of pages of comments from hundreds of organizations about proposed modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules.
My fingers are crossed that the final version of the federal breach notification rule greatly clarifies when a breach has to be reported to the individuals affected as well as federal authorities.
Just as most financial institutions have implemented security measures to protect access to customers' accounts and personal data, it is just a matter of time before healthcare organizations will be required to do the same.
Physician group practices shopping for an electronic health record system need to ask vendors plenty of security questions to avoid problems after implementation.
"I believe that I can help VA leap frog to the front of innovation by anticipating next generation security requirements and acquiring the proper solutions," Jerry Davis says.
Those involved in forming health information exchanges recently got yet another reminder that they had better pay serious attention to privacy and security.
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