Hospitals and physicians acquiring electronic health records software that qualifies for a new federal incentive program will know they're buying applications with robust security functions.
The "meaningful use" rule for the federal electronic health record incentive program provides a powerful, and much needed, new incentive to conduct a risk analysis, security experts say.
Federal authorities have charged 94 people in what U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called "the largest federal healthcare fraud takedown in our nation's history."
The California Department of Health Care Services has notified nearly 30,000 individuals of a breach stemming from the loss of a compact disk that may not have been encrypted.
Experts tell Congress that technology to provide for perfect attribution won't be possible anytime soon. Yet if it were, the solution could raise privacy and civil liberties concerns that many Americans would find untenable.
The official federal tally of major healthcare information breaches is now "new and improved," with a searchable format and the names of private practices revealed.
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