Regulatory compliance expert Harry Rhodes says it's essential to have a formal process in place for objectively assessing whether a security incident needs to be reported as a breach.
Five leading healthcare organizations are collaborating to demonstrate the secure national exchange of health information, hoping to pave the way for others, says James Walker, M.D. of Geisinger Health System.
Lacking technology is not the problem, says attorney Lucy Thomson. It's that today's technology is not being adequately used to fight modern cybersecurity threats.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology hopes to unveil a free HIPAA Security Rule Toolkit by December to help healthcare organizations achieve compliance.
The legislative blueprint for comprehensive cybersecurity legislation would strike a critical balance between strengthening security, preserving privacy and civil liberties protection and fostering continued economic growth, an official says.
Five Democratic senators point to inconsistencies in corporate Security and Exchange Commission reporting, investor confusion and the national importance of addressing cybersecurity for the need of new guidance.
"Raising the security awareness of your workforce is your best defense against having a breach incident," says David Holtzman, who's on the federal team that enforces the HITECH Act breach notification rule.
Plan would nationalize breach notification law, set penalties for cybercrimes and protect businesses from lawsuits that share cybersecurity information with DHS as well as promote the use of cloud computing.
A batch of overdue regulations dealing with healthcare privacy and security issues will be issued in one "omnibus" rulemaking this year, but how soon remains uncertain, one federal official says.
A new (ISC)2 information security workforce survey projects the doubling of federal government IT security staffs from 27,000 employees today to more than 61,000 by 2015. What's behind this growth?
"Our ability to provide immediate response to vulnerabilities and threats ... is quickly establishing VA as a model of excellence for the rest of the federal government."
VA CIO Roger Baker says in testimony before a House panel.
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