The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has selected the American National Standards Institute to accredit organizations that will certify electronic health records software for the HITECH Act EHR incentive program.
The executive director of a Southern California health information exchange describes a pilot project that's testing whether patient identifiers make it easier to match patients to their records from multiple organizations.
The Health IT Policy Committee on June 8 made recommendations on a number of privacy and security issues, including the use of digital certificates by participants in the Nationwide Health Information Network initiative.
A California physician group practice has notified nearly 16,000 patients of a health information breach stemming from the theft of 19 new computers from clinics in Pasadena and Long Beach.
Organizations need to constantly conduct risk assessments in order to improve the storage and protection of critical data, says David Finn, Health Information Technology Officer at Symantec.
Regulations such as HIPAA and HITECH drive healthcare providers and payers to adopt information protection strategies. But adoption of consumer-facing electronic privacy is a mixed bag.
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Many organizations are unprepared to adequately respond to a breach, security expert Bob Chaput says. "Breach notification planning is just a fundamental, basic part of risk management in the new millennium," he adds.
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The federal list of major healthcare information breaches that have occurred since September 2009 didn't grow much in the past month. The list now includes 272 cases affecting a total of almost 10.9 million individuals.
The threat landscape has evolved dramatically over the past several years, and now it's time for healthcare security leaders to step up and meet the new challenges involved with securing critical data.
Two new reports from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General offer harsh assessments of HHS' efforts to protect electronic health records.
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