Most House members voted for the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act, but with few Republicans supporting it, the measure failed to muster the two-thirds vote required to pass under rules that brought the bill back to life.
Don't wait until your organization experiences an information breach to figure out a detailed game plan for how to react to an incident. That's the urgent message from three security experts.
Social networking can provide physicians with an effective way to communicate with patients without raising security concerns, says Jeff Livingston, M.D.
A new Dartmouth College study illustrates the risks involved in using peer-to-peer networks as well as the dangers of storing patient information in spreadsheets and documents outside of electronic health records.
In an interview, Daniel advises practices to "bake in" security technologies and practices from the start of an EHR implementation. He advises practices to ask records software companies tough questions about privacy and security issues, including:
A Congressman is citing the recent theft of an unencrypted laptop containing health information on 616 veterans as evidence that the Department of Veterans Affairs is not doing enough to protect information.
A former security guard at a Dallas medical office has pleaded guilty to two charges that he broke into computers and installed malicious code while working the night shift last year.
Officials with the HHS Office for Civil Rights shed some light on a number of security-related topics at a conference the office co-sponsored May 11-12 in the nation's capital. For example, Susan McAndrew, OCR's deputy director for privacy, revealed that the random HIPAA compliance audits called for under the HITECH...
All healthcare organizations should create a detailed plan for meeting the requirements of the HITECH breach notification rule, says attorney Gerry Hinkley.
In an interview, Hinkley describes key steps hospitals, clinics and other should take, including:
Designating someone, such as the HIPAA privacy officer, to...
The government's Medicare anti-fraud efforts resulted in the recovery of $2.51 billion in fiscal 2009, up 29 percent from the previous year, according to a new report.
A review of news from this week's conference, "Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security," sponsored by the HHS Office for Civil Rights and NIST, including:
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