5 Key Recommendations to Minimize Data Breaches
New Ponemon Study Reveals “Common-Cold Frequency” of Data Breaches by Rick Kam, ID Experts Let’s face it. Data breaches have passed the trend phase and…
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Five Tips to Make Patient Privacy Part of Your Organizational DNA
Best Practices to Minimize Data Breach Risks and Maintain a Culture of Privacy Compliance Data breaches in healthcare are raising alarm. Nearly 20 million patient…
New Guidance for HIPAA Breach Response Plan
NIST Draft Publication Provides Guidance for HIPAA Breach Response Plans By Matt Wimberley, Santa Rosa Consulting The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) just…
Health IT Business News Wrap-up – August 12, 2012
This Week’s Health IT Business News The lead story of the week is Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate….
HIPAA Breaches Continue to Mount
HHS Reports 21M Affected by Health Data Breaches Since 2009 Another week, another data breach reported. Beth Israel Deaconess, Hartford Hospital and Stanford Hospital have…
Rapid Adoption of EHRs Create Patient Privacy Issues
Top 3 Issues Facing Patient Privacy Rick Kam, President and co-founder ID Experts You have greater privacy rights regarding the size of a shirt you…
10 Ways Health IT Improves Healthcare Delivery
Health IT Enhances Patient Care, Reduces Costs Verizon has released their list of 10 ways to enhance patient care and reduct costs through health information…
Healthcare Data Breaches on the Rise
String of Healthcare Data Breaches a Wake Up Call David Finn, Health IT Officer at Symantec LinkedIn Profile Health Information Equals Hacker’s Gold Mine What makes…
Recovery Room – 10/21/10
As usual, my Recovery Room posts try to highlight HITECH news and events we think you should know about. Here are some highlights. Health 2.0,…