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1.7 Million Personal Health Records Stolen

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ~1.7 million personal health records were stolen in December The confidential personal health data of about 1.7 million New York City patients, hospital staffers and others were stolen [+]

2011 Medical Claims Audits Benchmark Study Results

In late 2010, Compliance 360 conducted a survey among compliance professionals in the Healthcare Provider industry to benchmark their approach and greatest challenges in managing medical claims audits, audit contractor activity [+]

Does your EMR have security built in for VIPs?

Security is a high priority feature for today's EMR. One of the most public breaches for a VIP was the breach of George Clooney's medical record during a personal emergency.  Your EMR should be detailed audit [+]

How technology can encourage, and threaten, privacy

As the humans evolved they began developing newer technologies for improving their quality of life. However, while every new concepts improved the quality of life to a certain extent, there was always a hitch that [+]

Information Security Concepts in Healthcare: Access Control

Of all the concepts in Information Security, Access Control is, by far, the most widely known. It is the public face of Information Security. It is the Lock for every key, The Deadbolt for every door, and theLogin Prompt for every Operating System. In short Access Control is the device by which unauthorized users/resources are prevented from using a system while, at the same time, allowing authorized users/resources through.

Information Security Concepts in Healthcare : Authorization

When talking about Information Security, authorization is the act of determining whether a user, or resource, is allowed to perform a specific action with regards to specific data.  In a very simple example giving someone [+]

Information Security Concepts in Healthcare : Authentication Part II

In the first article in this series, on Authentication, I touched on UserName/Password as well as Biometric Authentication. I would like to talk about one more important method of authentication before moving on to Authorization. Cryptographic Challenge/Response Authentication

Information Security Concepts in Healthcare: Authentication

The importance of privacy within the healthcare industry is as old as the practice of medicine.  In the middle of The Information Revolution, though, it has taken on a whole new level of complexity.  As [+]

Database Considerations for Health Care – Security

Security Even before the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed in 1996 the confidentiality of patient data had a high priority. Patient records were private and policies covering patient data restricted access to them to [+]
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