Category: Security

Stephen Morreale, a former investigator for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, believes that the worst thing a healthcare organization being investigated for fraud or a breach can do is make the investigator wait. read more …read more

Get ready, because data breaches are expected to rise in 2014, especially in the healthcare industry. New security threats and regulations that call for more transparency will be partly to blame. read more …read more

News From Around the Web > The University of Connecticut Health Center is investigating its second data breach of 2013, according to Health IT Security, this one involving the medical records of… read more …read more

Responding to a request for comments, the American Hospital Association is urging the National Institute of Standards and Technology to keep its cybersecurity framework flexible and voluntary in the private sector. read more …read more

Google users may have come across the protected health information of nearly 33,000 individuals over the last two months, after a health system’s security gaffe left patient data exposed online. The three-hospital Cottage Health System in Santa Barbara, Calif., notified 32,755 of its patients Wednesday that their personal health information may have been available on…

Problems with Minnesota’s online health insurance exchange — long wait times, technology problems and security issues — are getting extra scrutiny as officials push to fix the website ahead of the new year when coverage is slated to begin for many. …read more

As technology charges ahead, it lets go of yesterday’s products. Next year—April 8, 2014—Microsoft will cease to support its XP operating system. As technology charges ahead, it lets go of yesterday’s products. Next year—April 8, 2014—Microsoft will cease to support its XP operating system. What does this mean for organizations using XP? According to Microsoft,…

Larry Hicks, a senior consultant with the Hay Group discusses the role a health fair can play in the benefits open enrollment process and the optimal timing for this type of health fair. Paul Harris, a senior healthcare consultant with Hewitt Associates and Hicks also list the privacy issues an organization must consider when planning…

Paul Harris, a senior healthcare consultant with Hewitt Associates, describes how organizations can utilize the data resulting from health fairs. Harris and Larry Hicks, a senior consultant with the Hay Group, also list the privacy issues an organization must consider when planning a health fair and the single greatest error organizations make when organizing health…