Adequate funding for privacy and security measures is essential to the success of sharing electronic health records to improve the quality of care, says William Braithwaite, M.D., Ph.D.
The HITECH Act electronic health record incentive program marked a landmark April 18. Hospitals and physicians can now use an attestation system to begin verifying to Medicare that they qualify as meaningful users of certified electronic health records
Susan McAndrew of the HHS Office for Civil Rights discusses recent high-profile HIPAA cases, HIPAA enforcement training for state attorneys general and the pending HIPAA audit program.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health is notifying nearly 133,000 individuals about a health information breach involving the theft of a laptop computer containing personal information.
The Health IT Policy Committee has approved a long list of recommendations from its Privacy and Security Tiger Team that now will be considered for federal rules and regulations.
The Family Planning Council in Philadelphia and its network providers are informing about 70,000 clients of a health information breach stemming from a stolen unencrypted flash drive.
Farzad Mostashari, M.D., the new head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has the experience that could help move the office from strategy development to execution on a number of issues, including the privacy and security of health information, some observers say.
Joy Pritts of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT says the office intends to develop standards that would give patients the ability to exclude clinicians from accessing certain portions of their electronic health records.
The Privacy and Security Tiger Team is advocating requiring participants in Stage 2 of the HITECH Act's electronic health record incentive program to verify how they are keeping stored data secure, such as through encryption.
A Connecticut hospital is notifying 93,500 of its patients about a breach incident involving data that was downloaded to a personal hard drive in violation of the organization's policies.
The federal government's official tally of major health information breaches now confirms the recent Health Net incident affected 1.9 million individuals, making it the largest breach on the list. Meanwhile, at least four state agencies are now investigating the incident.
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