Recent Health IT Security Articles

• Healthcare data vulnerability concerns: Mobile and cloud

  ID Experts, an IT services vendor that offers customers assistance with security and compliance projects, released a list of 10 data breach vulnerabilities today. While the items mainly revolve around what the experts considered general security weakne...

• HHS fines Idaho State University $400K for health data breach

  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a resolution agreement yesterday for Idaho State University’s (ISU) HIPAA violations that date back to Aug. 9, 2011. Because ISU’s Pocatello Family Medicine Clinic exposed 17,500 patientsâ...

• Mobile healthcare application development security implications

  As more EHR vendors create web-based and mobile interfaces for their products, the mobile market is further fragmented with applications that often weren’t meant for mobile. In response, many healthcare organizations are shunning the concept of EHR v...

• Calif. pilot shows nuances of HIE consent, authorization

  The State of California Office of Health Information Integrity (CalOHII) is taking a unique approach to educating covered healthcare organizations and providers in the state about matters of patient consent and authorization for health information exch...

• Erie County DSS investigating health data breach

  There is more patient data exposure news from Buffalo, NY, as following the recent health data breach at DENT Neurologic Institute, the Erie County Comptroller's office (headed by Stefan I. Mychajliw) reported that paper health records with protected h...

• HIPAA omnibus changes to notice of privacy practices for PHI

  As the Sept. 23, 2013 compliance date for the HIPAA omnibus rule creeps closer, many healthcare organizations are reviewing their current policies and procedures. One area that may fly under the radar but is critical to HIPAA compliance is an organizat...

• Tucson patients' data exposed; HHS breach tool updated

  News 4 Tucson (KVOA.com) reports that at least eight patients in Tucson, Ariz. have had their medical data compromised after paper health records containing dates of birth, Social Security numbers and health insurance information were found in Tempe, A...

• How anticipating a health data breach can boost security

  A healthcare chief information officer (CIO) saying that he expects to experience a health data breach is not only unusual, but may produce shock and awe in some parts of the healthcare industry. However, having this type of outlook, regardless of whet...

• Healthcare BYOD security: Using new management technologies

  There has been a shift in thinking when it comes to IT consumerization for many healthcare IT professionals. They are actually moving away from the BYOD trend and changing their focus toward something more up to date. The end user isn’t really too co...

• Community Health sends patients data breach notifications

  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...