The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is defending its security policies following a recent contentious Congressional hearing at which the department was called to task for security lapses.
"Operators of critical infrastructure could opt-in to a government-sponsored security regime," Deputy Secretary William Lynn III says. "Individual users who do not want to enroll could stay in the wild wild West of the unprotected Internet."
Two U.S. Senators have introduced legislation to exempt smaller healthcare, accounting and legal practices from the Federal Trade Commission's Red Flags Rule.
Looming federal audits for compliance with the HIPAA privacy and security rules create a new sense of urgency for having an up-to-date, comprehensive risk assessment.
The new chief privacy officer for the federal government's health information technology initiatives is ramping up efforts to set consistent policies for privacy and security.
Breaches can stem from a number of lesser-known causes, ranging from information left on the hard drives on leased copy machines to documents left in filing cabinets donated for resale.
A federal advisory group is fine-tuning a number of recommendations for improving the security of health information exchanges, including mandating encryption in certain cases.
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