Category: Security
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Built-in Protection In Laptop PCs Improves Compliance With New Healthcare Rules
In the healthcare industry, keeping patient data secure is not just a challenge, it is a legal necessity. Loss and theft of laptops makes sensitive data vulnerable. Worse, an unauthorized user might use a lost or stolen laptop to access the hospital’s computer systems. Healthcare organizations must also comply with increasingly stringent regulations, such as…
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Providing commodities not always best solution in food security crises
In a New York Times “Opinionator” piece, journalist Tina Rosenberg examines the Obama administration’s proposed changes to the U.S. food aid program, which would provide more flexibility to allow for cash purchases of food locally or from U.S. farmers, as well as end monetization.
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USAID report highlights need for better water management in agriculture
“With its recently released Water and Development Strategy, USAID highlights some practical and potentially powerful initiatives both to improve health by expanding access to clean water and sanitation and to improve food security through better water management in agriculture,” Isobel Coleman, a senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy and director of the Civil Society, Markets,…
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Lawmakers urged to ease HIPAA limits for parents
It is a tragic, terrifying, heart- and gut-wrenching experience for a parent to watch helplessly as the child they’ve raised from infancy spirals out of control as a young adult, caught in the whirlpool of drug or alcohol addiction or mental illness.
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OCR: Healthcare organizations unaware of privacy regulations
Recent HIPAA audits of provider and payer organizations conducted by contractor KPMG on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services determined that many in the industry don’t know which privacy regulations apply to them. read more
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ACOs put provider data at risk
Under accountable care, healthcare providers and payers are increasingly shaing patient data–and with that comes increased risk that the information falling into the wrong hands. read more
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Data Breach Report Urges ‘Know Your Adversary’
The findings of a comprehensive data breach report released by Verizon this week suggests that no industry is immune to cybercrime, and that the experiences of other affected industries can provide lessons for healthcare providers to safeguard their data. The findings of a comprehensive data breach report released by Verizon this week suggests that no…
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Fax mishap leads to HIPAA breach
This story has been updated. Faxing confidential patient health data has its own set of privacy issues, as the Oakland, Calif.-based WestCoast Children's Clinic can attest. The clinic has notified patients of a HIPAA breach after it faxed a patient's protected health information to an incorrect fax number. read more Source: Fax mishap leads to…
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Healthcare industry asks feds for clearer guidance on fraud, fewer audits
After sifting through 2,000 pages of public comments, staff members for the Senate Finance Committee say the healthcare industry wants clearer rules, fewer redundant audits and more focus on proactive healthcare fraud prevention.
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No estimate on amount of money lost to fraud in Medicare: CMS
The CMS has no estimate of how much federal money is lost to fraud in the Medicare program most plagued with improper payments, and the agency’s top integrity official was unable to tell lawmakers when they might see such a number.