Healthcare Lagging On Enterprise Mobility (0)
May 23, 2010 •
Gartner says healthcare CIOs need to take immediate steps toward implementing a sound wireless and mobile device strategy.
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Researchers address security and privacy in healthcare as part of $15 million project (0)
May 23, 2010 •
Two Dartmouth researchers are part of a new research endeavor funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) focused on security and privacy in healthcare.
Laptops plague government health data keepers (0)
May 23, 2010 •
Two instances of health data breaches this week served as a stark reminder that the wayward laptop — and not the hacked database — might be the more insidious information security threat to government healthcare organizations and their beneficiaries.
Cloud computing expected to improve security (0)
May 23, 2010 •
Over half of organisations believe that cloud computing will result in an improvement in security defences according to a poll from 360°IT, a fifth thought there would be no improvement and a quarter of organisations said that it will be detrimental.
Healthcare Data Risk Greatest From Human Erro (0)
May 23, 2010 •
Despite advances in security technology and regulations, human mistakes will likely continue to cause data security breaches that jeopardize patient privacy.
Action steps CFOs can take to boost data security (0)
May 23, 2010 •
Following up on my April 21 column detailing why hospital chief financial officers need to take an interest in the privacy and security of patient data…
Are Biometrics The Key To Health IT Security? (0)
May 23, 2010 •
We’ve all seen the movies and television programs where high-security government facilities or corporate offices are protected by biometric terminals that only grant access to individuals that provide an accepted scan of their finger…
VA ramps up enforcement of contractor data security (0)
May 23, 2010 •
The Veterans Affairs Department will step up enforcement of its contractors to make certain that they meet information security requirements in protecting veterans’ personal health data.
Survey Finds 47% of IT Security Professionals Believe Personal Healthcare Information is Less Secure in 2010 (0)
May 23, 2010 •
Forty-seven percent of IT security professionals believe their personal healthcare information is less secure than it was 12 months ago according to a recent survey by nCircle, the leading provider of automated IT security and compliance auditing solutions.
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- HIT Sector Ripe For Consolidation
- Technology Fears, Privacy Breaches Remain Barriers for EHR Use
- Healthcare Industry Continues to Overlook Critical Gaps in Data Security, According to New Bi-Annual Report
- Are You Very or Somewhat Concerned About the Privacy of Your Personal Medical Records?
- Digital medical record use on the rise
- Report: Healthcare organizations may have a false sense of data security
- Study points to critical gaps in hospital data security
- Protecting Healthcare Data In a Mobile World
- GRC Roll-up: Corporate Secrets and iPads for Healthcare
- Medical Data At Risk
- Diversinet targets healthcare industry with secure mobile solution
- Healthcare, financial firms no strangers to P2P
- United States: Healthcare Information Privacy, Security and Technology Bulletin
- Healthcare Industry Continues to Overlook Critical Gaps in Data Security, According to New Bi-Annual Report
- IT’s surprising leader in patient privacy
- Privacy concerns surface over ONC data project
- Health Data Deluge Expected To Spur Change
- No Access of Health IT Data for CIA, Federal Depts.
- Social Networks Pervasive in Regulated Industries
- iPhone poses security risk
- Healthcare, financial firms no strangers to P2P
- HITECH Compliance II – Don’t confuse security and privacy breaches.
- IT expert dubs use of USB memory sticks a ‘recipe for disaster’ for the NHS
- EMR Data Theft Booming
- HITECH Breach Data: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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