The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has named two of its own to temporarily fill top leadership spots. Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer, will remain in her position.
Top executives at healthcare organizations must take the lead in overcoming a culture that portrays privacy and security as barriers, says Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
Federal regulators plan to launch a permanent HIPAA compliance audit program in 2014 that targets a larger number of organizations but covers a narrower scope of issues. Learn the details the nation's top HIPAA enforcer revealed.
As healthcare organizations ramp up HIPAA compliance efforts, they should make far greater use of guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, says security consultant Mac McMillan.
To build credibility for its HIPAA enforcement efforts, the Department of Health and Human Services needs to ramp up its breach prevention efforts for the health insurance exchanges slated to begin operations Oct. 1.
Improper disposal of protected health information poses significant risks, as recent breach incidents demonstrate. That's why organizations need to do a better job vetting disposal companies and verifying that data or devices are actually destroyed.
Farzad Mostashari's successor as leader of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will have plenty of privacy and security issues to tackle, industry observers say. Find out what they say is on the to-do list.
Farzad Mostashari, M.D., who has championed programs of the HITECH Act over the last two years as national coordinator for health IT, announced Aug. 6 that he will be leaving his post in the fall.
The recent firings of six workers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center offers yet another reminder for health records snoopers everywhere: Curiosity kills your job.
Insurer WellPoint has agreed to pay the Department of Health and Human Services $1.7 million to settle a HIPAA case stemming from a website data breach that may have exposed information on more than 612,000 individuals.
Our analysis of U.S. government labor statistics shows a sizable increase in the IT security workforce. But the way the occupation is defined may have as much to do with the increase as the number of jobs themselves.
The agency that administers Indiana's Medicaid program is notifying almost 188,000 clients of a possible breach of their data tied to an apparent programming error by a business associate.
A new report shows that large data breaches in all sectors last year in California mirror a problem that keeps happening at lots of healthcare entities across the country. Find out what that problem is.
Federal regulators are proposing that the state health insurance exchanges created under healthcare reform must report data breaches within an hour. Is that a reasonable requirement?
At a hearing held by a federal advisory panel, health information exchange leaders spelled out some of the key privacy-related issues they're tackling. Learn more about the top challenges they face.
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