August 16, 2012 3:19 PM
Posted by: DonFluckinger
EHR,
EHR security,
HIPAA compliance,
HIPAA security,
patient data securityFinally, someone decided to ask patients how they feel about EHR security, or how much they trust their providers' EHR systems. No consultants, regulators or blue-sky technologists were allowed in this survey.
Health IT distributor CDW Healthcare surveyed 1,000 patients (age and...
January 19, 2012 4:15 PM
Posted by: AnneSteciw
big data,
clinical data analytics,
health data storage,
patient data securityIt's no surprise that more pundits are starting to sing about big data and health care sittin' in a tree -- after all, the health care industry generates huge volumes of data, much of it unstructured. A
November 21, 2011 12:57 PM
Posted by: Beastwood
AHA,
HIMSS,
patient data security,
patient engagementA proposed rule that would provide for direct patient access to lab results has drawn the ire of two key professional organizations.
The proposed rule, released Sept. 12, would modify HIPAA and the Clinical...
October 5, 2011 10:40 AM
Posted by: DonFluckinger
AHIMA,
data breach,
data breaches,
data loss prevention,
health care data breach,
HIPAA,
patient data securitySALT LAKE CITY -- It's simply crazy how frequently "data breach" is showing up on Google News's left hand column of trending topics lately. It seems -- at least, empirically -- that nine times out of 10 when you click on "data breach" to find out what is the latest story getting major traction,...
August 30, 2011 12:32 PM
Posted by: Beastwood
CDC,
patient data security,
social media,
Veterans AffairsLast week's East Coast earthquake proved the power of social media to report disasters, as millions took to Twitter and Facebook to report that they felt the earth move under their...
June 6, 2011 1:06 PM
Posted by: Beastwood
HIPAA business associate,
patient data security,
risk management,
VerizonVerizon Business has updated its partner and security management programs to help address the health care industry's increasingly complex data security...
March 16, 2011 1:00 AM
Posted by: DonFluckinger
data breach,
HIPAA,
patient data security,
PHISetting aside the somewhat nebulous costs of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enforcement and the negative publicity involved with data breaches, we can still say definitively that the cost of a health care data breach is rising. How much? It costs $20,663 to resolve a...
February 25, 2011 1:30 PM
Posted by: Beastwood
application security,
HIMSS 2011,
patient data security,
risk managementORLANDO, Fla. -- Given that the majority of health care data breaches occur at the application layer, health care organizations need to make application risk management a high...
January 6, 2011 10:49 AM
Posted by: Jenny Laurello
HIPAA,
medical errors,
patient data securityBy David Schneider, Editorial Assistant
With SearchHealthIT.com having reflected already on the top health care technology and
