Security consultant Rebecca Herold says that although the proposed Accounting of Disclosures rule poses challenges, it would provide patients with useful information about who accesses their records.
Revelations that Google's Gmail and Sony Pictures were both targeted by hackers highlights growing concerns about cybersecurity and the sophistication - and frequency - of attacks, as well as how to keep the public informed about such incidents.
What's the top threat on the minds of global IT leaders? Employee-owned mobile devices - or BYOD (bring your own device), as the trend is known. The struggle: Do mobile device benefits outweigh the organizational risks?
Organizations looking to improve their privacy management in the event of a breach "have to continually plan and prepare," says Nationwide's Chief Privacy Officer Kirk Herath. That means putting into writing a comprehensive plan.
The fate of pending regulations, an upcoming HIPAA Security Rule compliance toolkit and a crackdown on records snoops were among the most popular news items on HealthcareInfoSecurity in May.
Best practices for protecting medical devices are sorely lacking. That's why it's excellent news that a new consortium is attempting to devise some best practices for keeping medical devices secure.
Kirk Herath, Chief Privacy Officer at Nationwide Insurance Companies, has been in privacy management for more than a decade, and he has two main concerns about today's enterprise: Mobile technology and cloud computing.
The federal list of major healthcare information breaches that have occurred since September 2009 didn't grow much in the past month. The list now includes 272 cases affecting a total of almost 10.9 million individuals.
Hearing at a Senate Commerce subcommittee addresses smartphone apps that collect consumers whereabouts even though those application don't need to know the users locations to function.
A new (ISC)2 information security workforce survey projects the doubling of federal government IT security staffs from 27,000 employees today to more than 61,000 by 2015. What's behind this growth?
"No one up here wants to stop Apple or Google from doing the incredible things that you do," Sen. Al Franken says. "What today is about is trying to find a balance between all of those wonderful benefits and the public's right to privacy."
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