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		<title>Healthcare Lagging On Enterprise Mobility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gartner says healthcare CIOs need to take immediate steps toward implementing a sound wireless and mobile device strategy. 
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		<title>Researchers address security and privacy in healthcare as part of $15 million project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<title>Laptops plague government health data keepers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two instances of health data breaches this week served as a stark reminder that the wayward laptop &#8212; and not the hacked database &#8212; might be the more insidious information security threat to government healthcare organizations and their beneficiaries.
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		<title>Cloud computing expected to improve security</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<title>Healthcare Data Risk Greatest From Human Erro</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite advances in security technology and regulations, human mistakes will likely continue to cause data security breaches that jeopardize patient privacy. 
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		<title>Action steps CFOs can take to boost data security</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;
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		<title>Are Biometrics The Key To Health IT Security?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;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&#8230;
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		<title>VA ramps up enforcement of contractor data security</title>
		<link>http://www.hitsecurity.com/2010/05/23/va-ramps-up-enforcement-of-contractor-data-security/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hitsecurity.com/2010/05/23/va-ramps-up-enforcement-of-contractor-data-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<title>Survey Finds 47% of IT Security Professionals Believe Personal Healthcare Information is Less Secure in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>Privacy and Security Considerations for EHR Incentives and &#8220;Meaningful Use&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.hitsecurity.com/2010/05/23/privacy-and-security-considerations-for-ehr-incentives-and-meaningful-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To encourage adoption of electronic health record (EHR) technology, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 includes financial incentives for health care providers and professionals who can demonstrate &#8220;meaningful use&#8221; of electronic health records.
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