As personalized medicine continues to grow, how should genetic information be protected when it's incorporated into patients' electronic health records? Federal adviser Dixie Baker offers insights.
Providing patients with more transparency into who's electronically requesting their health information can not only improve data privacy, but also help patients catch record errors and ID theft, says David Staggs, a participant in a new pilot.
A former respiratory therapist has pleaded guilty in an ID theft case involving more than 800 patient records. A security expert explains why detecting insider fraud can be difficult and offers prevention tips.
New state health insurance exchanges will face many security and privacy hurdles. But ensuring that consumer information is secure with data handlers on the front end is a critical first step.
An employee of the New York state agency that investigates Medicaid fraud is being investigated after the individual allegedly sent 17,743 records to the worker's personal e-mail account.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office has issued a hefty fine after a computer with a hard drive containing data on about 2,900 patients was sold on eBay. Find out how the mishap happened.
After going back to the drawing board, federal advisers have reached their original conclusion: No special privacy or security policies are needed for non-targeted health data queries. Read their rationale.
The recent firings of six workers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center offers yet another reminder for health records snoopers everywhere: Curiosity kills your job.
One of the biggest security challenges the Washington state health insurance exchange faces as it prepares for its Oct. 1 launch is building interfaces with its partners, says CIO Curt Kwak.
Distributed-denial-of-service attacks pose a persistent, genuine threat to all sectors. That's why we've created the DDoS Resource Center to fill the information gaps.
Under the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, the process of obtaining patients' permission for use of their information in medical research projects has been updated, explains privacy attorney Adam Greene.
Data from social media sites like Facebook, along with mobile device texts, will be analyzed by researchers in the aim of preventing suicide among U.S. Veterans. But how will privacy be protected?
Intermountain Healthcare and Deloitte Consulting have teamed up to offer a new platform for healthcare data analysis. But how are they also still ensuring they protect patient privacy?
More than one-quarter of the U.S. Senate is asking the national intelligence director to reveal more information to the public regarding the government's programs to collect massive amounts of data on communications of ordinary Americans.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, a unit of the Department of Health and Human Services, has offered Congress a glimpse at its security and privacy priorities for next year. Let us know what you think of the to-do list.
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