Privacy & Security
The Department of Veterans Affairs will step up enforcement of its contractors to ensure they meet information security requirements for protecting veterans' personal health data.
With the introduction of electronic health records, health data storage is expected to be high on providers' to-do lists. However, storing this data will be challenging, said Bill Burns, senior director for Hitachi Data Systems.
A former contract security guard at the Carrell Clinic in Dallas has pleaded guilty to hacking hospital computers containing confidential patient information.
The Affordable Care Act offers effective new technology and sophisticated data analysis for reducing healthcare fraud that will build on programs that helped Medicare and Medicaid recover billions of dollars in 2009, according to the government's annual Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC) report.
The White House has begun developing a strategy for securing online transactions and stemming identity fraud that pays particular heed to the importance of building a trusted arena for electronic healthcare transactions.
A recent story in the New York Times about “Web coupons” tells how the massive, under-the-radar data mining industry just hammered one of the last nails into the coffin of online "privacy". In case you are naïve enough to imagine you have any privacy at all online – this story proves you have none.
A Department of Health and Human Services workgroup is wrestling with questions of whether existing laws are strong enough to protect the privacy of patient information conveyed using NHIN Direct, a set of specifications for helping healthcare organizations swap data electronically.
Forty-seven percent of IT security professionals believe their personal healthcare information is less secure than it was a year ago, according to a recent survey.
GE Healthcare recently launched a new global business unit that provides eHealth solutions and services to healthcare providers, health insurances and governmental agencies.
Premier healthcare alliance, which encompasses 2,300 not-for profit hospitals and health systems and more than 63,000 other healthcare organizations, addressed healthcare reform in a letter to Congressional leadership Jan. 12.
