A presidential advisory council is calling for the development and widespread adoption of a "universal exchange language" to ease the transfer of health information while maintaining privacy.
The plan calls on Federal CIO Vivek Kundra to publish within the next six months a strategy to accelerate the safe and secure adoption of cloud computing across the government.
"With the right people, process and technology, you could be able to put a system together that would greatly reduce the impact these types of attacks have," says cybersecurity expert Eric Cole, a SANS Institute faculty fellow.
Seven pilot projects are beginning tests of The Direct Project, which enables simple, secure exchanges of information between two healthcare organizations.
The House has joined the Senate in approving legislation that would exempt certain businesses, including physician practices and apparently many hospitals, from the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule.
Using palm scanning technology to identify patients can help improve patient safety and prevent fraud, says Michael Sauk, vice president and CIO at University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics.
The Privacy and Security Tiger Team will hold an all-day hearing Thursday on the issue of matching patients to all their relevant information, including electronic health records and financial data, to help ensure privacy as well as the quality of care.
Information security incidents are more sophisticated - and so are the criminals who perpetrate them. This raises the bar for professionals seeking careers in incident response in 2011.
"Until they personally suffer pain, they don't think it is something that can happen to them," says Eric Cole, an insider threat expert and SANS Institute faculty fellow.
No one knows risk better than the internal auditor, and so no individual has a better opportunity to add risk management value to organizations, says Richard Chambers, president of the Institute of Internal Auditors.
One of the many difficult challenges involved in devising federal regulations governing the privacy and security of personal health records is that so many different flavors of PHRs exist.
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