Tag: security
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Readers Write: Buy or Build: SaaS Can Make Sense for Meaningful Use Reporting
Buy or Build: SaaS Can Make Sense for Meaningful Use Reporting By John Hotchkiss The trials and tribulations of Meaningful Use (MU) have given new meaning to the lives of many of us in IT, and often not in a good way. An average 250-bed community hospital submitting its 90-day attestation report must process roughly…
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HITRUST Releases New Guidance for Healthcare Organizations to Assess Cybersecurity Preparedness
In response to heightened awareness and concerns about cyber threats, attacks and incidents, the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) announced today new guidance for healthcare organizations wanting to assess the state of their cybersecurity preparedness. The guidance identifies an appropriate subset of controls within the HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF) that are most directly related…
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Securing Social Media For Healthcare
Social media sites—such as Facebook and Twitter—can be a tempting outlet for healthcare employees to discuss patient information that should be private. Breaches of information security and patient privacy may or not be intentional, and they can be committed by an employee, a contractor, a temporary employee, or an external party. However, the repercussions to…
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Commencement at Columbia University
I recently spoke at Columbia University to the graduates of their healthcare IT certificate program. I used these slides. I started with an overview of my top 10 buzzwords for 2013 describing a strategy for each of them: Secure and Compliant – BIDMC has a multi-million dollar security enhancement program with 14 work streams Hosted…
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HIT Policy Committee approves info exchange security recommendations
The health IT industry may have a better idea of how health information exchanges can protect patient data after ONC's Health IT Policy Committee approved several recommendations from its Privacy and Security Tiger Team last week. read more
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Pentagon struggles with high cost of health care
The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program — the military’s health care system.
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Washington DSHS Reports Data Breach Affecting 652 Patients
The Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) has reported that it suffered a 652-patient data breach on Feb. 4 when private psychologist contractor’s laptop was stolen in Gig Harbor, Wash. The Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) has reported that it suffered a 652- patient data breach on Feb. 4 when private psychologist…
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Hospital IT director: Focus on securing patient data, not devices
The key to health information security is in data security, and not necessarily the devices in which data is stored, according to Barbara Bartley, executive director of IT operations and information security officer at Montgomery, Ala.-based Baptist Health. read more
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Security concerns hindering polio immunizations in Pakistan, WHO official says
“Some 240,000 children have missed U.N.-backed vaccinations against polio because of security concerns in Pakistan’s tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, a top official with the World Health Organization said Friday,” the Associated Press/Huffington Post reports.
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Bring-your-own-device practices by healthcare workers fraught with security risks
Nearly 89 percent of U.S. healthcare workers use their personal smartphones for work purposes, finds a Cisco partner network study . However, when it comes to security, the study found that 41 percent… read more