A provision in the proposed Accounting of Disclosures Rule mandated under the HITECH Act that calls for providing patients with an "access report" listing everyone who's electronically accessed their records is stirring up debate.
Adam Greene, the primary author of the proposed
accounting of disclosures rule mandated under the HITECH Act, describes its major provisions and offers advice on how to prepare.
Celebrity snooping at healthcare facilities highlights an alarming - and often unchecked - trend: PHI privacy violations committed by current or former employees, contractors, and other insiders. Protecting patient privacy comes down to more than policies and regulations. What's needed is a way to enforce PHI...
Many organizations are unprepared to adequately respond to a breach, security expert Bob Chaput says. "Breach notification planning is just a fundamental, basic part of risk management in the new millennium," he adds.
Federal authorities have issued a detailed notice of proposed rulemaking that sets out guidelines for how patients must be provided with an accounting of who has viewed their protected health information.
The fate of pending regulations, an upcoming HIPAA Security Rule compliance toolkit and a crackdown on records snoops were among the most popular news items on HealthcareInfoSecurity in May.
Many have been asking lately if the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights has been effective in carrying out its HIPAA enforcement role. The question is a fair one.
A free webinar June 15 will address healthcare information privacy and security issues for financial institutions that process protected health information.
Learn how to prepare your organization for a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis. In this webinar, we'll share pro-active steps that you can take to speed the process, improve the outcome and lower the potential mitigation costs of performing a HIPAA Risk Analysis. Our objective is to help you achieve meaningful use and most...
The federal list of major healthcare information breaches that have occurred since September 2009 didn't grow much in the past month. The list now includes 272 cases affecting a total of almost 10.9 million individuals.
The timing of two new watchdog reports that highlight the need to protect the security of electronic health records could help build momentum for action, some observers say.
Hearing at a Senate Commerce subcommittee addresses smartphone apps that collect consumers whereabouts even though those application don't need to know the users locations to function.
The threat landscape has evolved dramatically over the past several years, and now it's time for healthcare security leaders to step up and meet the new challenges involved with securing critical data.
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