Blog Posts Tagged with "EMR"
Six Must-Do Items to Protect Patient Privacy
October 03, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
In order to prevent breaches of patient privacy, we first need to establish baseline business requirements for the organization. There are 6 business requirements for preventing patient privacy breaches, these are “must items” for any healthcare business unit manager...
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Friends and Family Breach Patient Privacy, Not Estonian Hackers
September 17, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Humans being are naturally curious, sometimes vindictive and always worried when it comes to the health condition of friends and family. Being human, they will bend rules to get information and in the course of bending rules, breach patient privacy...
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Network Exposure and Healthcare Privacy Breaches
August 20, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
EHR interconnected with HIE systems have a big threat surface, because of big, very complex software systems with a large number of attacker entry points. Healthcare system vulnerabilities are compounded since everyone is using the same technology from Microsoft and following the same HIPAA compliance checklists...
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Healthcare Information Exchanges: The Death of Patient Privacy
August 09, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Health information exchanges (HIE) enable the sharing of health records by physicians and other providers, enabling my family physician to see the results without getting up from her desk or without me shlepping paper or CD. Unfortunately, HIE are being modeled after the retail industry supply-chain model...
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Howard Schmidt to Unveil Report on Health Information Security
March 02, 2012 Added by:Marjorie Morgan
Schmidt is slated to announce the third publication in the Internet Security Alliance's financial cyber risk management series, "The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information: A Business Case for enhanced PHI Security"...
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Healthcare Data Interoperability Pain
January 18, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Imagine vendor-neutral, standard middleware for EHR applications that would expose data for patients and doctors using an encrypted Atom protocol – very simple, very easy to implement, easy to secure and with very clear privacy boundaries...
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HIT Security: Conclusions in a Contradictory Report-Sandwich
December 02, 2011 Added by:Ed Moyle
The barometer that the Ponemon study uses (i.e. breach disclosures, breach impact) could actually be an indicator of better security instead of worse. It could be the case that breaches are on the rise because we're finding them more because not looking for them so violates federal law...
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Doctors and Patients Want EMR and Privacy Protection
February 14, 2011 Added by:Jack Anderson
One hopes and believes that with the Senate and the President protecting HITECH that we have at least until 2013 to implement what I feel is the most important program in healthcare today. If your goal is to improve patient care and reduce cost, nothing will have more impact than HITECH...
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