The shift to monthly reports of key metrics through CyberScope from annual FISMA filings allows security practitioners to make decisions using more information and more quickly than ever before, OMB Director Jacob Lew says.
"We have this problem on the Internet, which is: How do I talk to someone I've never met before and know that they are who they say they are?" says Michael Smith of Akamai Technologies.
While it's good to see more privacy and security details included in the final version of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, much work remains to ensure patient information is protected when it's exchanged.
Faced with criticism for a lack of details and vision in its original draft of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2011-2015, federal authorities have beefed up some privacy and security details in the final version.
Two years after starting the Medicare Recovery Audit Program, the Department of Health and Human Services has launched a similar program to crack down on Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse.
In an attempt to make it easier to compare the privacy practices of personal health records vendors, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has created a model privacy notice.
Bipartisan legislation introduced Sept. 14 calls for the testing, and potential national rollout, of smart cards for Medicare enrollees and providers as a way to help combat fraud.
"Once you identify that person based on the unique characteristics of their face, you could then match it with other databases," privacy advocate Beth Givens says, referring to privacy gaps created by facial recognition technology.
Leon Rodriguez, formerly chief of staff and deputy assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, is the new director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights.
Responding to a request for ideas on how to update the Common Rule, which provides guidelines for research on human subjects, the Privacy and Security Tiger Team says a key issue is how to define "research."
Intelligence expert Terry Roberts says cyber intelligence, a new approach to IT security, could make significant gains in the coming year. "The good thing is, this isn't really rocket science," says the chair of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance's Cyber Council.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has proposed new rules that would expand the rights of patients to access their health information through the use of health information technology.
"You need to understand how you are currently using social media in your organization, and how you intend to use it, before you can define policies around social media," says Erika Del Giudice of Crowe Horwath.
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