George Hulme seems to be singing in harmony with me in an article, “Steady Bleed: State of HealthCare Data Breaches” on InformationWeek where he reviews much of the same data I’ve discussed here as well as the new FairWarning report. You can read his article here.
Month: September 2010
VA beefs up data security of network devices
Mary Mosquera reports: By the end of September, information security managers at the Department of Veterans Affairs will have the electronic tools in place that will let them see how vulnerable the one million computers and other devices connected to the VA network are.For the last six months, VA has been deploying multiple software applications…
Another "balancing" argument about privacy and EHRs
Some days I feel like a health care sector Paula Revere spreading the warning, “the breaches are coming, the breaches are coming!” I just saw this commentary on HealthNewsDigest.com by Eric Demers, the senior vice president of health and life science at MEDecision: …. We shouldn’t allow overreactions to misperceived weaknesses in EHR security to…
VA beefs up data security of network devices
Mary Mosquera reports: By the end of September, information security managers at the Department of Veterans Affairs will have the electronic tools in place that will let them see how vulnerable the one million computers and other devices connected to the VA network are.For the last six months, VA has been deploying multiple software applications…
Google Health has changed a bit
Google Health has undergone some tweaks. You can read about how Google Health corresponds to — or doesn’t correspond to — HIPAA protections here. Kudos to them for providing a comparison chart. Google Health Privacy Policy can be found here.
Men who bought and used stolen card data from Hannaford breach sentenced
Joseph Serna reports: An Irvine man is scheduled to surrender himself to police Nov. 12 and serve a year in jail for his role in a credit card forgery ring, Orange County prosecutors said. Jerome Abaquin Gonzales, 33, pleaded guilty in Orange County Superior Court Sept. 10 to felony counts of conspiracy to commit credit…