Category: Security

The following is an interview with Vishal Gandhi, CEO of ClinicSpectrum as part of the Cost Effective Healthcare Workflow Series of blog posts. Follow and engage with him on Twitter @ClinicSpectrum and @csvishal2222. As practices prepare for the rollout of ICD-10, we’re seeing practices and hospitals make investments in upgrades to their technology to be…

The lion’s share of medical identity theft victims can expect to pay upwards of $13,500 to resolve the crime. What’s more, about 50 percent of consumers say they would find another healthcare provider if they were concerned about the security of their medical records. How’s that for a business case to take security a little…

Health IT privacy policy expert Deven McGraw is joining the Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as the deputy director for health information privacy. Health IT privacy policy expert Deven McGraw is joining the Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as the deputy director for health information privacy. OCR…

The following is a guest blog post by Jennifer Bergeron, Learning and Development Manager at The Breakaway Group (A Xerox Company). Check out all of the blog posts in the Breakaway Thinking series. Electronic health records (EHR) aim to improve healthcare and processes for providers and patients on a number of fronts. In an ideal…

If this post feels like groundhog day, then you are probably remembering our previous post about Windows XP being retired and therefore no longer HIPAA compliant and our follow up article about a case where “unpatched and unsupported software” was penalized by OCR as a HIPAA violation. With those posts as background, the same thing…

Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins is planning on doubling the fines for breaches of patients’ medical records, as well as making it easier to prosecute offenders, according to multiple Canadian news media reports. Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins is planning on doubling the fines for breaches of patients’ medical records, as well as making it…

A data breach at the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services made Medicaid patients’ information, including Social Security numbers and private health information, available online. read more Read more from originating source…

ONC continues to push out more data when it comes to meaningful use, EHR adoption, RECs, and related areas. As a data addict, I could spend forever looking through and analyzing this data. So, I’ll probably do a series of posts across Healthcare Scene over the next couple weeks looking at the charts and data…

Cloud EHR vendor Medical Information Engineering has revealed that it suffered a data breach affecting the electronic medical records of some of its clients’ patients. read more Read more from originating source…

At St. Luke’s-Boise, Applying Threat Intelligence Strategies to Cybersecurity Efforts At St. Luke’s Health System, based in Boise, Idaho, executives are as concerned as everywhere about cybersecurity. And with nine hospitals, over 200 clinics, and 14,000 employees, in locations across southwest Idaho and a few locations in eastern Oregon, there is a lot of data,…