One of the nation's largest healthcare systems is ramping up its information security efforts as it spends $1.3 billion to implement comprehensive electronic health records and related technologies.
The curious fact about cybersecurity legislation before Congress is that nearly everyone sees a need for it, and there's no partisan bickering, yet few people see a comprehensive federal information security bill becoming law this year.
When it comes to managing relationships with business associates to help with HITECH Act compliance, healthcare organizations could learn some lessons from the banking industry.
In Cincinnati, one of the nation's oldest health information exchanges studies the best way to give patients control over their data. Meanwhile, in Washington state, pilot projects test the health record bank approach.
New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center says a security breach may have exposed information on 6,800 patients on the Internet in July.
A privacy and security "tiger team" will continue to meet this fall to draft recommendations on a number of issues related to the exchange of patient records.
Kevin Johnson, SANS instructor and security expert, on what you need to know about Stuxnet, Twitter worms and other new threats to organizations and privacy.
The Markle Foundation's "blue button" concept for enabling patients to download their records from a secure website is suitable for a wide variety of healthcare organizations, says Josh Lemieux, the foundation's director of personal health technology.
Detailed patient consent recommendations that a privacy and security "tiger team" recently completed are just a starting point toward giving patients far more control over their healthcare information, the co-chair of the team acknowledges.
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