Hospitals and physicians should ask detailed, probing questions about security when considering whether to work with a vendor offering a remotely hosted electronic health records system.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office serves as a reminder that the physical cannot be safeguarded effectively without help from the virtual.
Just as most financial institutions have implemented security measures to protect access to customers' accounts and personal data, it is just a matter of time before healthcare organizations will be required to do the same.
Hospitals and physician groups that enter contracts with companies that remotely host systems, such as electronic health records, should spell out that the vendor will bear the cost of complying with new regulations, says Robert Wah, M.D., of Computer Sciences Corp.
The recent sentencing of a Chicago area physician for stealing about $13 million from Medicare and other insurers serves as an important reminder of the need for medical record access controls.
There are two trends that information security leaders should watch closely: The growing sophistication of fraudsters, and the concurrent "consumerization" of the workplace.
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