Eric B. Parizo reports: A panel of healthcare security leaders say increasing pressure from users and management to allow access to social networking and Web 2.0 technologies is raising new concerns about keeping their IT environments secure. The discussion at RSA Conference 2010 offered a unique look at decisions faced by security directors charged with…
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ONC Issues Rule Proposing the Establishment of Certification Programs for Health IT
Sheel Pandya reports: On Tuesday, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (Health IT) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a proposed rule that establishes two voluntary certification programs to test and certify health IT. The National Coordinator for health IT is required by the American Recovery…
AU: Medicare privacy breaches 'only the beginning'
Carly Laird reports: Revelations that Medicare employees are being investigated for spying on customers’ personal information have renewed fears from privacy advocates that healthcare staff cannot be trusted. As the Federal Government works to bring in a national identity scheme for patients, around 400 cases have emerged of unauthorised snooping on people’s private records over…
OCR/HHS reveals two more breaches
The public list of breaches reported to HHS under the HITECH Act was updated to add two entries. Both entries are associated with the same business associate: MSO of Puerto Rico. I do not see anything on the web sites of the covered entities or the business associate about the incident nor did I see…
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Over the weekend, I added 19 financial, 21 business, 4 healthcare, 1 government and 1 not-for-profit breaches thanks to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office updating their web site. You may also be interested in reading how much manpower was involved in trying to identify whose data and what kinds of data were in the audio…
Britney Spears’ Attorneys Worried About Personal Leaks
Feras Ballout reports on PowerWebSpoilers: Britney Spears’ conservatorship attorneys, Geraldine Wyle and Jeryll Cohen, are worried that personal and medical information will leak out into the media unless it’s put under legal lock and key – and have taken steps to do just that. In their argument, the attorneys note that “A Google search for…