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Electronic health records privacy compliance

• Providers advance in battle against data breaches in healthcare

  The new year could be one of healthcare cybersecurity catchup, after 2015 logged huge health data breaches and 2016 saw devastating ransomware attacks on providers. Continue Reading

• Blockchain healthcare promise, problems aired at government conference

  Blockchain distributed ledger technology bears big potential and poses challenges for health IT applications; supporters and skeptics debated blockchain at a government workshop. Continue Reading

• ONC official: Hospitals may already be familiar with new MACRA provisions

  BALTIMORE --Two main points stood out most when a leading ONC official took the stage at today’s AHIMA conference: MACRA and data segmentation for patient privacy. The release of the final MACRA ... Continue Reading

• The trade-off to big data in healthcare: Privacy

  Big data in healthcare presents many positive possibilities for patient care. But as David Lazarus writes in his recent column in the Los Angeles Times, while big data presents many benefits -- ... Continue Reading

• New Brother printers offer HIPAA compliance for healthcare

  While much of healthcare has gone digital, some hospitals and many smaller providers still use paper records; Brother print-fax-store machines are HIPAA-compliant for print. Continue Reading

• Q&A: The main reason healthcare organizations violate HIPAA

  The second round of HIPAA audits have commenced, and most likely some healthcare organizations will be found to violate HIPAA. A health IT expert discusses common mistakes.Continue Reading

• CIO Halamka advocates for patient data sharing in healthcare

  Patients should freely and openly share health data so that data breaches won't matter, CIO John Halamka says. He also believes that choice should be up to each individual.Continue Reading

• Healthcare information security tops purchasing survey

  In a TechTarget survey, health IT buyers said they are looking at security compliance ahead of analytics and EHR systems. Meanwhile, mobility is up as well.Continue Reading

• Data security in healthcare tops health IT buying intentions

  Healthcare data security and HIPAA compliance emerged as the top areas in a TechTarget survey of 2016 health IT buying intentions. Meanwhile, cloud and mobility are growing quickly.Continue Reading

• HIPAA audit program serious business, expert says

  As OCR HIPAA audits get underway, healthcare law expert David Harlow says healthcare organizations should prepare, and that patient access to data will be part of audits.Continue Reading

• Probst on cybersecurity in healthcare: 'We have to work together'

  As it should be, cybersecurity is on many healthcare CIOs' minds. Marc Probst, CIO at Intermountain Healthcare, shares some advice.Continue Reading

• For secure messaging, healthcare shouldn't rely on texting

  Texting is convenient and fun, but it is not the appropriate way for physicians to communicate securely with patients about health matters, such as lab test results.Continue Reading

• Ask the expert: Encryption is key for a HIPAA covered entity

  David Reis, CISO at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, discusses important steps a healthcare organization, as a HIPAA covered entity, should take to remain compliant.Continue Reading

• Privacy, security controls for healthcare HIPAA compliance

  For HIPAA healthcare compliance, providers and other healthcare organizations need to prepare for HIPAA audits and use effective privacy and security controls.Continue Reading

• Wanted: Super sleuths to find healthcare data security risks

  To secure patient data in a world on the go, learn from breaches others have experienced, experts say, and look at how analytics can boost your security strategy.Continue Reading

• When it comes to healthcare big data the risk is worth it

  CIO Joel Vengco discusses how healthcare big data can improve patient care and create more vulnerabilities. In the end, he thinks it's worth it.Continue Reading

• FBI joins cybersecurity discussion at HIMSS 2015

  Cybersecurity guru Mac McMillan, in a HIMSS 2015 podcast, says state-sponsored and criminal threats against health data sometimes overlap.Continue Reading

• Expert warns OCR HIPAA audits ahead

  In this podcast, first of a two-part series, CynergisTek health data privacy expert David Holtzman says the 2015 round of HIPAA audits are coming soon.Continue Reading

• CHIME group tackles health information security

  The Association of Executives in Health Information Security, a new group from CHIME, has accumulated 200 members in two months.Continue Reading

• SMS doesn't translate to secure messaging in healthcare

  Strict healthcare privacy rules make SMS messaging a tough sell to care providers. More secure messaging is needed to meet their expectations.Continue Reading

• How to monitor physician-patient communication and boost engagement

  Find out how providers are fighting the security risks imposed by today's electronic methods of communication.Continue Reading

• Master patient ID system not a threat to patient privacy

  A reader, responding to SearchHealthIT's interview with the national coordinator for health IT, explains the need for a master patient ID system.Continue Reading

• Security gets interactive with HIPAA compliance assessment app

  The release of a security risk assessment tool to assist providers with HIPAA compliance was announced by the Department of Health and Human Services.Continue Reading

• Providers fear meaningful use penalties, push to delay stage 2

  Meaningful use stage 2 is pushing providers to engage their patients, something not all specialties can hope to achieve.Continue Reading

• Group to combat medical identity theft with tech, consumer awareness

  A public-private group has formed to stop the sale of stolen medical information. Its first task: Involve payers, providers, vendors and consumers.Continue Reading

• Patient-facing information systems raise HIPAA concerns

  Patient-facing portals are becoming tools for engagement. But providers must consider HIPAA regulations before implementing such information systems.Continue Reading

• Covered entities should think hard about business associate agreements

  Business associate agreements might seem straightforward, but regulatory ambiguity and vendor resistance make them anything but.Continue Reading

• Lack of EHR use may hasten malpractice lawsuits

  Electronic health records can complicate malpractice law, but one reader suggests that, over time, a lack of EHR use may put health care providers in an even worse place.Continue Reading

• HITECH Act security provisions catching health care providers unaware

  The HITECH Act’s new data security and privacy mandates, which go into effect this month, are leaving many health care providers and vendors in danger of being noncompliant with HIPAA.Continue Reading