Category: Security

As hospitals and healthcare facilities continue to adopt electronic tools to store and share patient data, some are turning to cloud-based tools to meet their needs. What that means for privacy and protection still is very much up for debate, as evidenced in the tone of a discussion panel at last week's Health Privacy Summit…

Pegasystems has announced that its Pega Cloud® offerings have successfully completed an independent verification of controls by an Independent independent verification of controls by a renowned Independent Audit firm, confirming that Pega has the information security, compliance and confidentiality procedures and controls to address HIPAA regulatory concerns. The resulting HIPAA Compliance Matrix can be used…

Patient access and engagement have been on my brain of late. Sure, that has a lot to do with the fact I attended both Health Datapalooza and the Health Privacy Summit last week in Washington,… read more …read more Source: The importance of health IT adoption–from a parent's perspective

Chief information officers spoke about their experiences with data breaches yesterday at the Healthcare Privacy Summit yesterday in Washington D.C. They agreed that unfortunately, what they've… read more …read more Source: CIOs discuss their data breach experiences

Privacy experts spoke about their data breach experiences Thursday at the Healthcare Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C., agreeing that what they've experienced likely is just the beginning for what's possible in security fissures at healthcare organizations. read more original article source From: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/privacy-experts-health-data-security-efforts-too-reactive/2013-06-07?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

Top News The former chief information security officer of the VA says the department’s networks and databases were hacked by at least eight foreign governments, including Russia and China. Jerry Davis, who was CISO from 2010 until February 2013, testified that the VA didn’t encrypt databases containing patient information, employed weak user authentication, and failed…

At least eight foreign-sponsored organizations, mostly connected to the Chinese military, have hacked into computer networks at the Veterans Affairs Department in recent years or were actively trying to do so, a former VA computer security chief… original article source From: http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130606/INFO/306069986

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Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System, a seven-hospital system based in Suffolk, Va., has announced that they are proactively contacting former patients via letters on behalf of Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital to inform them of an electronic medical records security breach. Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System, a seven-hospital system based in Suffolk, Va.,…

Today I presented our multi-year information security plan to the BIDMC Board Committee on Compliance, Audit and Risk. Here is the presentation I used. Following our February external review of security policies and technologies, we developed a planning process, and a complete multi-year plan with timelines, budgets, and staffing requirements. The plan contains 14 work…