This year's HIPAA compliance audit program will come up somewhat short of the target of 150 audits, says Leon Rodriguez, the nation's lead HIPAA enforcer.
The Obama administration's Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights should be seen as a vital document to help shape an expansive and globally accepted privacy framework in the United States, privacy and data security lawyer Lisa Sotto says.
Proposed rules for Stage 2 of the HITECH Act electronic health record incentive program, to be unveiled today, will contain a substantial list of new privacy and security requirements, federal officials confirm.
To protect privacy without adversely affecting the quality of healthcare, hospitals and clinics need to monitor records access and use access controls, a medical informatics expert at Kaiser Permanente says.
IT security practitioners who employ the RSA public-private key cryptography needn't lose sleep about its efficacy, despite new research that raises questions on how it creates large prime numbers to generate secret keys, IT security authority Gene Spafford says.
NIST's Ron Ross will be quite busy at RSA Conference 2012, not only promoting revised guidance on security and privacy controls to be unveiled at the securing conclave, but also participating in a panel on one of his favorite topics: continuous monitoring.
Who are the true leaders in the healthcare information privacy and security arena? HealthcareInfoSecurity plans to prepare a list of the Top 10 Influencers, and we need your help.
When Google amended its policy, suddenly everyone was talking about privacy. How do privacy officers turn these discussions to their advantage? Kirk Herath of Nationwide Insurance has some ideas.
NIST proposes the establishment of an independent identity ecosystem steering group, led by the private sector but working with the federal government, to help create an environment to assure the security of online transactions.
Verisign Inc. may have followed the letter of the law when revealing a series of breaches in an SEC filing. But the company that assures the flow of a hefty portion of Internet traffic should have been more forthright to ease the minds of its various constituencies.
Building public trust that electronic health records will remain private is essential to the success of federally funded efforts to boost EHRs and health information exchange.
The uproar over Google's latest privacy policy is much ado about nothing, especially the cry from some in Congress that the Internet company won't allow users to opt out of its new policy.
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