Federal regulators have issued a strategic health IT plan that includes five goals, including advancing secure health information exchange. Could more EHR certification requirements and another information sharing and analysis center be in the works?
A watchdog agency has identified a second list of security weaknesses in the Internal Revenue Services' systems that support Obamacare. Learn about the key areas of concern.
Who hacked Sony? Not us, say the North Koreans, ending days of silence. As Deloitte becomes the latest victim of the G.O.P. gang that's claimed credit, one thing is certain: Sony won't have to buy the movie rights to this hacking story.
It's time to consider amending the HIPAA Privacy Rule to enable the sharing of certain research data, without patients' authorization, to help improve the quality of care, contends Douglas Fridsma, M.D., a former federal health IT leader.
Barring a catastrophic cyberattack in the next few days to motivate legislators to act, don't expect lawmakers to vote on any cybersecurity bill for the remainder of the current Congress.
A year after Facebook received a bug report regarding a loophole in its app architecture, the vulnerability remains exploitable, says the researcher who discovered this potential threat to user privacy.
A new U.K. government report accuses social networks of serving as a "safe haven for terrorists," inflaming what some see as tense relations in the post-Snowden era between the British government and Silicon Valley.
Despite substantial concerns about privacy and security, a large majority of U.S. consumers support the use and exchange of electronic health records by their healthcare providers, say Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT researchers.
The Massachusetts Attorney General has fined Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston as a result of a 2012 breach involving a stolen unencrypted laptop. Find out the size of the penalty.
The Walgreens case is the second state court ruling in recent weeks that calls attention to how incidents involving alleged patient privacy violations can lead to negligence lawsuits that invoke HIPAA as a benchmark.
The Ebola crisis has prompted federal regulators to issue special guidance offering reminders about how the HIPAA Privacy Rule governs the sharing of patient information in emergency situations.
The secure national exchange of patients' health information for use in treatment will make progress once "we simplify what we say when we're explaining privacy to people," says Lucia Savage, new chief privacy officer of ONC.
Legal experts are analyzing the potential national impact of a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling that plaintiffs can sue for negligence if a healthcare provider violates HIPAA regulations for protecting patient privacy.
Offering HIPAA compliance refresher training to hospital staff members is urgent, says privacy attorney Brad Rostolsky, because of the risks that could come with treating patients infected with Ebola.
Emerging Web-enabled health technologies, ranging from the upcoming Apple Watch to a Google "pill" that could potentially detect cancer in patients' bodies, pose troubling new privacy risks, says privacy advocate Deborah Peel, M.D.
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