Healthcare organizations developing or updating information technology contingency plans for responding to emergencies, such as natural disasters, soon can take advantage of new guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
When will federal regulators draft long-awaited privacy and security rules for personal health records? So far, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services are being tight-lipped on the subject. Asked about the status of the rules, which, under the HITECH Act, were due in February, an HHS spokesman would...
Some folks find Health Information Exchanges scary. They raise the notion that as electronic health records are exchanged among clinics, hospitals and others at the local, regional, state and national level, the opportunities for the information winding up in the wrong hands increase. And they have a point. Clearly,...
The Department of Health and Human Services raised some eyebrows with its announcement that it will pay $26 million to Ketchum Inc. for a public education campaign about the privacy and security of electronic health records and related topics. Some consumer advocates are questioning the selection of Ketchum, given its...
Interview with Gartner's Roberta Witty
Organizations have made strides in business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) planning. But BC/DR professionals need to sharpen their business skills to truly protect their organizations.
This is the stance taken by Roberta Witty, research VP at Gartner. In an exclusive...
Should health insurers follow Medicare's lead and give physicians incentives to adopt secure electronic health records? Some are saying that the healthcare reform measure signed into law March 23 should have required all insurers to provide EHR incentives. Do you think commercial insurers should follow in Medicare's...
Following President Obama's signing of healthcare reform legislation March 23, tens of millions of uninsured Americans could gain coverage in the next few years. That will create new responsibility to keep their insurance information, as well as their patient records, private and secure. Think of the millions of new...
Although there's plenty of talk about cybersecurity threats involving devious international hackers, the real threat to the security of healthcare information, I believe, is staff members who aren't paying enough attention to the little details. The Gartner Group's John Pescatore said it well in a recent interview:...
The federal government's new list of major healthcare breaches is far too difficult to find. While the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is living up to the letter of the law in posting the list deep within its Office for Civil Rights' Web site, it's sure making it difficult to reach the list.
The man known as "Doctor HIPAA" for his extensive work crafting and implementing the HIPAA administrative simplification rules is hot and cold when it comes to the HITECH Act. William R. Braithwaite, M.D., Ph.D., likes HITECH's funding for electronic health records. But he's not too keen on the short compliance...
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