President Obama on Saturday signed legislation that exempts certain businesses, including physician practices and apparently most hospitals, from the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule.
"Literally, in my entire time working in the privacy field, I've never seen such profound and aggressive activity by the government in the privacy space," privacy expert Thomas Oscherwitz says.
Ron Kloewer, CIO at 25-bed Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, explains why the critical access facility's spending on information security will grow in 2011.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has become akin to a "cyber messiah," Hemu Nigam says. And Assange's followers have proven: "If you turn your back on our messiah, we are going to take you down."
Devising strategies for ensuring social media are not used in ways that violate patient privacy is one of the top trends for 2011, says Lisa Gallagher, senior director of privacy and security at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
This week's top news and views: Revised NHIN Governance Plan Advances; Sizing Up the Role of XML in EHRs; Top Healthcare Security Trends for 2011. And don't miss our audio week-in-review podcast by Howard Anderson, managing editor.
One-third of students who gave up social media for a week say they felt less stressed by not having to compulsively check updates and posts on social networks.
While the HITECH Act is jump-starting the shift from paper to electronic health records with its incentive payments, a presidential panel is envisioning a next generation of EHRs that embed privacy protections using XML.
Looking ahead to the new year, Kristin Lovejoy of IBM says information security organizations face a host of global compliance issues - and the complexity of this challenge may be the biggest task of 2011.
Expanding use of secure messaging as well as remote access to information systems are key 2011 IT priorities for Shriners Hospitals for Children, says Bill Bria, M.D., chief medical information officer.
With a hodgepodge of networks, applications and operating systems to manage - maintaining security and preventing breaches can be difficult. The challenges are daunting, but solutions are at hand.
This is the perspective of Roark Pollock of HP Tippingpoint. In an interview, Pollock discusses three specific...
The recent WikiLeaks release of thousands of sensitive government documents puts security leaders on notice: The breach threat is real, and no organization is immune.
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