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Pitting public health and well-being against patient confidentiality is nothing new in the healthcare industry and won’t die down anytime soon, but the ongoing debate has been magnified of late in Boston. The Boston Public Health Commission recently received criticism from local Boston publi...
Read moreMac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek, Inc. CynergisTek is a healthcare information security services and consultant company that helps providers in areas such as risk assessment and security testing. McMillan is a HIMSS Fellow and current chair of the HIMSS Privacy and Security Policy Task Force. ...
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A lot can be learned from the work done by how individual state health information exchanges (HIEs) deal with policy, contract and technical requirements and one specific area of interest is Health Information Service Provider (HISP)-to-HISP communication. In a recent blog post, John Halamka, CIO...
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With literally thousands of staff members operating within your healthcare organization – all asking for more mobility options – how do you create an environment that will work for everyone? Furthermore, what process is involved in making this type of platform work efficiently? The first step...
Read moreThe sending of three emails including personally identifiable information of patients between October 2012 and February 2013 has led the Regional Medical Center in Memphis (the MED) to report a health data breach, according to a public notice issued by the healthcare organization on May 9, 2013. ...
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After learning of a former employee stealing patient identities, Community Health Med-check in Speedway, Ind. has notified about 180 patients that their data may have been compromised. WISH TV in Indiana reports that the employee (who no longer work...
Health IT security vendor news for the week of May 13-17 TigerText and AirWatch partner to offer healthcare mobile security solution: TigerText, the leader in secure, real-time messaging for health care and enterprise and AirWatch, the global leader...
To help prepared HIPAA covered entities for the new omnibus rule coming into effect on Sept. 23, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has planned four free HIPAA omnibus webinars between June 14 and July 26. ...
In a recent guest post on John Halamka’s blog, Fabienne Bourgeois, MD, of Children's Hospital Boston analyzed some privacy concerns and roadblocks for adolescent personal health record (PHR) interactions while detailing Children’s approach to pat...
Following problems with patient privacy back in January at Louisiana State University LSU Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) that involved exposed protected health information (PHI), LSUHSC-Shreveport Vice Chancellor Hugh Mighty said that patient privacy ...
While human error is unavoidable from time to time, what healthcare organizations do to minimize the impact of those mistakes with health data goes under the microscope when breaches occur. DENT Neurologic Institute of Amherst, NY recently experienced ...
Pitting public health and well-being against patient confidentiality is nothing new in the healthcare industry and won’t die down anytime soon, but the ongoing debate has been magnified of late in Boston. The Boston Public Health Commission recent...
Pursuant to a law in North Carolina, the Identity Theft Protection Act of 2005, businesses or government agencies are required to report details about security breaches to the state’s Attorney General’s Office. Editors from HealthITSecurity.com h...
Mac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek, Inc. CynergisTek is a healthcare information security services and consultant company that helps providers in areas such as risk assessment and security testing. McMillan is a HIMSS Fellow and current chair of the HIMS...
Effective in July, CVS drug stores will no longer use patient prescription drug records for the purpose of sending patient pharmaceutical-paid refill notices. The organization’s argument for doing so revolves around new HIPAA omnibus provisions that ...
