In a case weighing privacy vs. free speech, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a Vermont law that requires physicians to give their consent before information about their prescription-writing habits can be sold to help market prescription drugs.
If you take a close look at the healthcare information breach "wall of shame," you'll notice that maybe, just maybe, we're making some progress this year.
Federal officials should offer detailed guidance on how to conduct a "risk of harm" assessment to comply with the HITECH Act Breach Notification Rule, says Harry Rhodes, director of practice leadership at the American Health Information Management Association.
"It's not enough to know the architecture of the breach system," says Michael Aisenberg of MITRE Corp. "Leaders have to understand the different jurisdiction of where they do business, where their customers are and which breach law applies."
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will soon seek feedback on using certain existing standards for metadata for specific purposes, such as to indicate a patient's privacy preferences, within electronic health records. ONC will then consider the comments before deciding whether to require the use of...
Security experts at this week's Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit agree: Security, not compliance, has to be the new focus. Cyberintrusions cannot be stopped, and the RSA breach should be a lesson to the industry.
Farzad Mostashari, who heads the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, has described why electronic health records play an important role in disaster preparedness.
A total of 11 million Americans have been affected by major health information breaches since September 2009. So far in 2011, 2.7 million have been affected by 32 incidents.
The new orders, signed a month ago by President Obama, detail when the military must seek presidential approval for a specific cyberassault on an enemy and weave cyber capabilities into U.S. war fighting strategy, the AP reports.
Authorities charged Ryan Cleary with distributed denial of service attacks on a British law enforcement agency that LulzSec claimed it hacked on Monday. Police also charged the suspect with attacks claimed by the group Anonymous against two music industry sites last fall.
Four of the five people who entered guilty pleas in connection with an identity theft case at a Florida hospital and a physician's office have received prison sentences.
To access a central data repository in the cloud, participants in a Chicago health information exchange now in development will use a virtual private network where all data traffic is encrypted, says Terri Jacobsen, director of the project.
The arrest followed an investigation into network intrusions and distributed denial of service attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to be the same hacking group.
The latest component of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' ongoing effort to protect medical devices from malware is the creation of a centralized patch management system, says Randy Ledsome, the VA's acting director of field security operations.
Northrop Grumman Cybersecurity Research Consortium's Robert Brammer says IT security researchers should think like Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League hall of famer: Skate to where the puck will be.
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