Category: Security

Long looked upon warily by healthcare security experts, cloud technology could soon find more favor as new rules bring clarity and assign responsibility for privacy protections. read more From: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/has-cloud-found-its-moment

All Medical Solutions, the Healthcare division of Fusion Systems North America, announced today Amerinet, Inc., a leading national healthcare solutions organization, has signed a new agreement that will make the AMS SPHER™ HIPAA Compliance Solution available to its members. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130919/AMS-SPHER-HIPAA-Compliance-Solution-now-available-to-Amerinets-members.aspx

An area ripe with security and technical barriers, ePrescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) is still very much a work in progress for most healthcare organizations. In this Q&A, HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with Todd Richardson CIO of Aspirus Health in Wausau, Wisc., an organization that has its eyes on EPCS and is beginning…

Researchers have found a way to encrypt a heartbeat that can be used as a biometric security identifier for implanted medical devices, such as defibrillators and insulin pumps. read more Source: Encrypted heartbeat could secure implanted devices

Health giant Kaiser Permanente is notifying 670 patients of a HIPAA privacy breach after an emailed attachment containing the protected health information of patients was sent to a recipient outside the Kaiser network. read more From: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/kaiser-permanente-sends-out-breach-letters-after-email-gaffe

Many people do nothing to prevent medical identity theft, largely because they don’t know how, according to a new survey report from the Ponemon Institute. It estimates the number of victims at… read more Source: Medical identity theft up 20 percent in the past year

With the Oct. 1 rollout of a major facet of the Affordable Care Act on the horizon, you’ll be hearing a lot about the glitches, loopholes and shortcomings of this most important restructuring of America’s healthcare system in our lifetimes. Source: Viewpoints: Hopes for single payer system remain; GOP’s move to tie debt ceiling to…

Medical identity fraud has increased nearly 20 percent compared to the year before in the U.S., affecting an estimated 1.84 victims and having a total out-of-pocket medical costs incurred by medical identity theft victims to be $12.3 billion. Those are takeaways of the 2013 Survey on Medical Identity Theft, an annual survey now in its…

Provider-patient trust could be put to the test if a proposed amendment to HIPAA by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights goes into effect. The amendment looks to soften privacy regulations that currently prevent states from reporting patient information to the National Instant Criminal Background System. read more Source:…

Compliance for the HIPAA Omnibus Rule is fast approaching and the provisions surrounding the relationship between covered entities and business associates have been a hot topic and for many health IT leaders, a bit of a mystery. In a recent talk I had with Mac McMillan, I tried to understand why this was the case.…