Complying with the proposed "meaningful use" criteria to qualify for the HITECH Act's electronic health record incentive program would lead to a decrease in physician productivity, a new survey shows.
A risk analysis should not be an annual event, but rather an ongoing process that's revisited whenever a healthcare organization adds or changes any application. That's the advice of Kenneth Bradberry, vice president and chief technology officer at ACS, a consulting firm recently acquired by Xerox.
In an interview...
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt isn't buying into the grim forecasts that the United States is ill prepared to defend the government's and nation's critical information assets from an immense virtual attack by political adversaries or cyber criminals.
UAB Health System in Birmingham, Ala., is tackling a long list of information security projects, including updating intrusion detection and prevention systems.
In an interview, Terrell Herzig, HIPAA security officer, outlines priority projects, including:
Expanding the use of encryption;
Conducting...
C. Warren Axelrod is a veteran banking/security executive and thought-leader, and in an exclusive interview at the RSA Conference 2010 he discusses top security trends and threats, including:
Insider fraud;
Application security;
Cloud computing.
Axelrod is currently executive advisor for the Financial...
The man known as "Doctor HIPAA" for his extensive work crafting and implementing the HIPAA administrative simplification rules is hot and cold when it comes to the HITECH Act. William R. Braithwaite, M.D., Ph.D., likes HITECH's funding for electronic health records. But he's not too keen on the short compliance...
The ongoing project to build a National Health Information Network, which amounts to a group of standards for secure data exchange, is expanding to include a "light" version.
"Historically, there's been a dichotomy between network security on the one hand and investigative process on the other," FBI Director Robert Mueller says. "It has been a great divide between us but needn't be."
Education and training are two of the key priorities of information security professionals and organizations in 2010. And professional certifications are at the heart of that training.
What's new in information security certifications? In an exclusive interview at RSA Conference 2010, W. Hord Tipton, Executive...
What are the key banking/security topics on the minds of leaders of the nation's largest banks?
At the RSA Conference 2010, Paul Smocer of BITS and the Financial Services Roundtable discusses:
The Roundtable's information security priorities;
How regulatory reform may impact security organizations;
The...
Hospital boards of directors are just beginning to realize the size and scope of the information security regulatory compliance tasks their organizations must complete, one consultant contends.
Under a proposed federal rule unveiled March 2, organizations designated to certify electronic health records software will assess the applications' security functionality but not require the use of specific security standards.
The three major regulations to support the electronic health records incentive program will be finalized by the end of spring, according to the team leader for the federal government's HITECH Act implementation effort.
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