Enabling the national exchange of electronic health records will require a formal governance system to monitor whether the players are abiding by the same rules.
Hospitals and physician group practices applying for federal incentive payments for using electronic health records must carefully address privacy as well as security issues, says Kelly McLendon, president of Health Information Xperts.
Detailed patient consent recommendations that a privacy and security "tiger team" recently completed are just a starting point toward giving patients far more control over their healthcare information, the co-chair of the team acknowledges.
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Hospitals and physicians should ask detailed, probing questions about security when considering whether to work with a vendor offering a remotely hosted electronic health records system.
Projects in Cincinnati and Detroit are the final additions to the list of those that will receive a total of $250 million in federal grants for the secure sharing of healthcare information among organizations.
Lessons learned from the competitions should help the government and business develop programs to identify, train and recruit cybersecurity specialists, U.S. Cyber Challenge Director Karen Evans says.
In an unusual breach incident, the Social Security numbers, gender and dates of birth for about 22,000 retired Delaware state employees were posted for five days on a state website.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office serves as a reminder that the physical cannot be safeguarded effectively without help from the virtual.
Healthcare organizations need to broaden their efforts to educate staff about privacy and security issues to include warnings about inappropriate uses of social media, a Harvard professor advises.
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