Personalized medicine research, which relies on genetic information paired with electronic health records, could pave the way for many treatment breakthroughs. But because of the sensitive nature of the information involved, pioneers in this field must take extra privacy and security precautions.
Among the many subjects the Privacy and Security Tiger Team will tackle in the weeks ahead is determining whether more guidelines are needed on the issues of accommodating corrections to electronic health records and ensuring data integrity.
An incident recently added to the official federal list of major health information breaches offers a reminder that dental practices, as well as medical practices, must adequately protect patient records.
The Alembic Foundation has unveiled Aurion 4.0., the first release of its rebranded version of the CONNECT open source software for health information exchange.
Two South Florida companies entered guilty pleas this week in a case involving a scheme that authorities said resulted in the payment of more than $80 million in fraudulent Medicare claims.
In the wake of the RSA, Epsilon and Sony PlayStation data breaches, we spoke to two global information security leaders and asked for their three biggest leadership lessons learned. Here is what they shared.
"Our security teams were working very hard to defend against denial of service attacks, and that may have made it more difficult to detect the intrusion quickly, all perhaps by design," Sony Computer Entertainment America Chairman Kazuo Hirai said in a letter to Congress.
Big brother isn't the relation the government sees itself portraying in developing the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Uncle Sam has a more avuncular role in mind, giving advice and serving as a role model.
In one of his first media interviews since taking over as head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Farzad Mostashari outlines his privacy and security priorities.
"On a global basis, countries are recognizing that they need a uniform commercial code, if you will, for data - a unified approach for managing IT infrastructure services," says Marlin Pohlman of the Cloud Security Alliance.
One of the most significant conferences of the year devoted to healthcare information security issues will be held next week in Washington, and we'll be providing full coverage.
From mobile devices to social media and cloud computing, IT governance is all about risk management. "You can't de-risk everything, but you can de-risk the majority of circumstances you will see in normal operations," says governance expert Robert Stroud.
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