Take a look at the contract that the Department of Health and Human Services entered with KPMG to conduct HIPAA compliance audits and you'll get a few insights on what healthcare organizations can expect.
A breach involving the theft of an unencrypted hard drive from a car has affected more than 82,000 patients treated at healthcare systems in New Jersey and Illinois.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has launched a project designed to test sharing only portions of patients' electronic health records among providers to help assure privacy.
The Dutch company that was deceived by hackers into issuing fraudulent digital certificates is liquidating its assets under the protection of a bankruptcy court in the Netherlands after failing to recover from the attack.
"We find a lot of security professionals saying, 'I'm just going to get another certification, or I'm going to get deeper into this technology skill,'" says researcher David Foote. "That's not going to get you very far."
The co-owner of a mental healthcare company was sentenced to 50 years in prison in a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme involving bogus therapy sessions for the elderly in the Miami area.
President Obama's plan to slash more than $3 trillion from the nation's deficits, unveiled on Monday, includes savings of more than $5 billion from cutting waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid.
A look at the impact of President Obama's $4 trillion plan to reduce the federal government's deficit over the next decade while creating jobs in the coming year on information security employment and spending.
"It's important, in that climate today, where we have very sophisticated cyberattacks taking place, to have the ability to do a fairly comprehensive analysis on the threat space," NIST Senior Computer Scientist Ron Ross says.
The shift to monthly reports of key metrics through CyberScope from annual FISMA filings allows security practitioners to make decisions using more information and more quickly than ever before, OMB Director Jacob Lew says.
"We have this problem on the Internet, which is: How do I talk to someone I've never met before and know that they are who they say they are?" says Michael Smith of Akamai Technologies.
While it's good to see more privacy and security details included in the final version of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, much work remains to ensure patient information is protected when it's exchanged.
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