The New England Healthcare Exchange Network, one of the nation's oldest health information exchanges, is continuing to use a federated data architecture model to help protect patient data as it broadens the transactions it accommodates, says Sira Cormier, program director.
Removing provisions from the original bill to grant the federal government authority to impose standards on the mostly privately-owned critical IT infrastructure is a concession to win votes from Republicans, who oppose regulation.
Medical identification theft is on the rise. Will healthcare reform, as recently affirmed by the Supreme Court, help reverse that trend? Here's why it's difficult to predict the impact of reform.
The Department of Health and Human Services is offering one-year fellowships to infuse new ideas into several key health technology projects. Find out the details about these opportunities.
New federal guidance on how to exchange lab test results using the Direct Project protocol requires that senders must get notification that delivery succeeded or failed.
Now that Tennessee is pulling the plug on its statewide health information exchange, it's a good time to reassess the many challenges that HIEs face - including the need to ensure patients that their information will be protected.
John Halamka, M.D., one of the nation's leading healthcare CIOs, says a top compliance project for this summer is improving mobile device security
at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
The Health Information Trust Alliance plans to make detailed recommendations for de-identifying patient information and using it for research. A new working group will issue guidance in phases.
In a tribute, we remember Terrell Herzig, information security officer at UAB Health System, an innovator who was passionate about sharing best practices for protecting sensitive information.
Information security isn't just the domain of those branded information security professionals but also requires the knowledge of nearly every other IT occupation as well as individuals in many non-technology jobs, too.
A new GAO report criticizes HHS for its tardiness in issuing guidance for how to de-identify patient data. The report also calls on HHS to spell out plans for continuing its HIPAA compliance audit program beyond this year.
The Markle Foundation has updated its guidance on health information exchange privacy and security issues to help HIE organizers and participants develop an environment of trust. Learn about the latest recommendations for policies and practices.
Marcus Ranum isn't shy about saying online authentication methods are outdated and insecure. Passwords will get breached, but organizations can do more to protect their users and online databases.
An Obama administration memo, issued by U.S. Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner, cautions federal agencies that interfering with e-mails used by government employees to unveil misconduct could be unlawful.
LinkedIn's failure to comply with long standing industry standard encryption protocols jeopardized its users' PII, and diminished the value of the services, the class action federal lawsuit filed in northern California says.
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