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.
Interview with Kim Peretti of Pricewaterhouse Coopers: Are the courts taking a more severe sentencing approach to cybercrimes related to identity theft?
Electronic health records software vendors can begin applying for certification of their applications as qualifying for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive program now that two certifiers have been selected.
Educating staff about keeping protected health information off social media should be a high priority, much like education about sexual harassment, discrimination or any other behavior with zero tolerance.
Debbie Christofferson has worked in IT and information security for many years. And if there's anything she's learned about risk management, it's this: It's all about risk. "All of your decisions about information security should be based on risk to the organization."
All insurance companies doing business in Connecticut now must report information breaches to state authorities within five calendar days, even if the data involved was encrypted.
Just as most financial institutions have implemented security measures to protect access to customers' accounts and personal data, it is just a matter of time before healthcare organizations will be required to do the same.
A total price tag of nearly $1 billion for dealing with the aftermath of major breaches reported to federal authorities so far should motivate healthcare organizations to take aggressive steps to improve security, one analyst advises.
Lockheed Martin has won two contracts worth a total of $9 million to support further development of the National Health Information Network, a set of services, standards and policies that enable the secure exchange of health information over the Internet.
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