Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia is notifying nearly 4,000 patients of a health information breach incident involving personal information exposed on a research website.
The federal list of major health information breaches included 240 incidents affecting 6.5 million individuals as of Thursday. But that number soon could grow substantially as a result of incidents that made headlines this week.
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., will head a new subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law, said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Many of those testifying at a hearing about a presidential council's call for a universal exchange language Tuesday urged a go-slow, deliberative approach to the effort to improve the interoperability of electronic health records while maintaining privacy.
HealthcareInfoSecurity.com will provide in-depth coverage of privacy and security issues at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference next week.
Implementing electronic health records software that includes security functions is just the first of many steps involved in ensuring security, says Bonnie Cassidy, president of the American Health Information Management Association.
Some 1.7 million individuals are being notified of a health information breach incident involving data from The New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. It's the largest breach reported so far under the HITECH Act breach notification rule.
Hussein Syed, director of IT security at Saint Barnabas Healthcare System, explains why the organization shifted from software-based to hardware-based encryption.
A long-overdue proposed rule setting requirements for how healthcare organizations must account for disclosures of information in electronic health records is one step closer to publication.
A recently released presidential council report, while raising important issues, oversimplifies the challenges involved in securely exchanging health information, says Joyce Sensmeier, vice president for informatics at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
As David Blumenthal, M.D., prepares to step down as National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, it's a good time to assess the privacy and security issues that his successor must address.
A new consumer survey shows that Americans are more concerned about the security of their financial information and personal identifiers than they are about the security of their medical records.
The successor to David Blumenthal, M.D., who has announced he'll resign as National Coordinator for Health Information Technology this spring, will have a lot of work to do when it comes to protecting the privacy and security of healthcare information.
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