Following President Obama's signing of healthcare reform legislation March 23, tens of millions of uninsured Americans could gain coverage in the next few years. That will create new responsibility to keep their insurance information, as well as their patient records, private and secure. Think of the millions of new...
A federal agency will survey U.S. consumers on their attitudes toward electronic health information exchange and related privacy and security issues.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology within the Department of Health and Human Services announced in the Federal Register March 19...
When it comes to protecting your organization and your customers from a data breach, what is considered "reasonable security?"
This question is at the center of several ongoing lawsuits, and how the courts answer it may be one of the biggest stories of 2010.
Shedding light on this hot topic is David Navetta,...
Although there's plenty of talk about cybersecurity threats involving devious international hackers, the real threat to the security of healthcare information, I believe, is staff members who aren't paying enough attention to the little details. The Gartner Group's John Pescatore said it well in a recent interview:...
The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is investigating a possible healthcare information breach involving a former employee's personal laptop comput
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has posted a preliminary draft of its "Health IT Strategic Framework" that spells out, among other things, its proposed federal privacy and security strategies.
The Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey is far from scientific. But the results are nevertheless eye-opening. This year's results show that 23% of responding organizations have had some sort of a security breach in the past year. And that's a big number.
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Monday that is has notified nearly 100 organizations that their peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks have been sharing information with the wrong people.
The issue of how existing online banking networks could be used to ease the exchange of healthcare information will be addressed at a "medical banking" conference in Atlanta Feb. 28-March 2.
The Medical Banking Institute is sponsored by the HIMSS Medical Banking Project. The Healthcare Information and Management...
Joy Pritts, J.D., has been named the first chief privacy officer within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. ONC is a unit within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that is carrying out the provisions of the HITECH Act, including beefed up information security...
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