Although there's plenty of talk about cybersecurity threats involving devious international hackers, the real threat to the security of healthcare information, I believe, is staff members who aren't paying enough attention to the little details. The Gartner Group's John Pescatore said it well in a recent interview:...
That sudden scurrying sound you're hearing is a multitude of Health Information Exchanges scrambling to tap into government stimulus dollars. Many of them are devising complicated plans for storing and sharing data among multiple players. These HIEs need a simpler way to launch data sharing among hospitals, physicians...
Every IT vulnerability survey of the past 10 years has had the same item at the top of the list: internal personnel our so-called trusted workers. Billions of dollars, countless vulnerability assessments, thousands of innovative security solutions later, and we still haven't moved the trusted worker off the top of the...
Patients have a right to know when their information was disclosed or breached. And so does the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and in some extreme cases, your local news media - largely because of the HITECH Act.
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