Farzad Mostashari, who heads the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, told a House panel that the HITECH incentive program is on track to achieve its goals of widespread adoption of EHRs and secure data interchange.
NASA is ramping up efforts to encrypt all laptops following the recent theft of one containing sensitive personal information. Find out more about the U.S. space agency's encryption plans.
NIST issues its interagency report on supply chain practices as a congressional panel cautions against using Chinese-made components that some lawmakers fear might have been altered to spy on Western governments and businesses.
Despite numerous data breaches, as well as financial incentives and penalties, many healthcare organizations aren't taking risk assessment requirements seriously. Experts offer insights on best practices.
Post-Superstorm Sandy, as security pros prepare for disasters, they must consider the integrity and availability of data - an often overlooked business continuity element, says Alan Berman of DRI.
President Obama has signed a classified presidential directive that reportedly enables the military to act more aggressively to frustrate cyberattacks on government and private computer networks.
For the second time in three months, the Senate on Nov. 14 failed to muster the 60 votes needed to halt a filibuster of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. The vote was 51-47.
Declining prices for human genome sequencing are likely going to make such testing more common for medical research and clinical care. But what privacy issues need to be addressed first to protect genomic data?
A House subcommittee on Nov. 14 will hold a hearing to scrutinize the HITECH Act's electronic health record incentive program and whether it adequately promotes the interoperability of EHR systems to ease the secure exchange of information.
An important lesson in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy is the need to beef up contingency plans, including making sure staff members are cross-trained, says Deborah Kobza, CEO of the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
Incorporating new concepts such as security-control overlays and placing a renewed emphasis on information assurance, the forthcoming guidance is 'a total rewrite' from the 2009 version, NIST's Ron Ross says.
The Department of Homeland Security is testing whether data from social media sites can help identify public health issues, such as infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorism. Learn about the strategy.
The kind of detailed data analysis that helped statistician Nate Silver predict accurately the outcome of the U.S. presidential election could help enterprises using cloud-based SIEM to identify vulnerabilities, says Cloud Security Alliance's Jens Laundrup.
To know how best to respond to IT and communications failures, incident response pros first must collect information on such incidents, says Marnix Dekker, who co-authored a new report for ENISA.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including the theft of records for nursing home patients in Illinois and an e-mail error at Kaiser-Permanente.
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