Category: Security

Two and a half years ago, The New York Times published an article about abusive employees who worked for the state, detailing how few employees were fired, even after the state recommended that they lose their jobs, because of weaknesses in the arbitration process, the permissive attitude of state officials and the aggressive stance of…

HealthcarePays has created a virtual card processing solution to ensure compliance, reconciliation of remittance information with payments, and detection of waste and fraud for healthcare providers throughout the United States. MasterCard will supply the connection between banks and providers to ensure speed and convenience in the payment process. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130809/HealthcarePays-creates-virtual-card-processing-solution-for-healthcare-providers.aspx

A majority of companies, including healthcare organizations, now rank cyber security risks as greater than natural disasters, fires and other major business risks, according to a new survey by the… read more From: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/cyber-risk-considered-greater-natural-disasters/2013-08-08?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

Today’s headlines include reports about how deadlines have been missed regarding tests for the health cxchange privacy system. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130807/First-Edition-August-7-2013.aspx

Some hospital executives are upset with medical device makers, who they say aren't reacting fast enough to in the face of looming cybersecurity threats, according to a new post this week in the Wall Street Journal. read more From: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/hospital-execs-med-device-makers-react-slowly-security-threats/2013-08-06?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

Unless patients trust healthcare organizations to protect their digital health data, they may be unwilling to allow it to be shared–which could have life-threatening consequences, John Benevelli, acting senior advisor for HIPAA Compliance and Enforcement in the Office for Civil Rights said at the recent eHealth Summit. read more From: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/cms-panel-emphasizes-health-it-privacy-security/2013-08-06?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

Bloomberg news service examines the complications involved in building the hub that will connect databases of seven federal agencies. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130801/Data-hub-will-be-key-to-health-law-operation-but-also-raises-privacy-concerns.aspx

FairWarning® solution underpins the reputation of the Summary Care Record to ensure maximum adoption From: http://www.healthtechwire.com/fairwarning-inc/patient-privacy-top-priority-as-norway-rolls-out-national-summary-care-record-3524/

Information for 3,044 patients at the Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has been compromised after medical residents inappropriately stored the data on a cloud computing system, according to the institution’s announcement. Information for 3,044 patients at the Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has been compromised after medical residents inappropriately stored the…

Information for more than 3,000 patients at Oregon Health & Science University was put at risk when medical residents stored the data on a password protected cloud computing system, the institution announced this week. The potential data breach is the third such reported incident to occur at the university in less than a year, and…