In a Federal Register notice effective December 1, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced a reorganization of its office. Among the most notable changes is the decision to create the position of…
While affected Connecticut residents and authorities are understandably upset about the recently reported loss by regional health plan provider Health Net of personal information on all 446,000 Connecticut customers served by the plan, the six-month delay…
Another opportunity this week for federal health IT executives working on information exchange to continue to focus attention on the challenge of reconciling different security and privacy laws applicable to federal and non-federal entities. As seen…
The results of a survey conducted recently by HIMSS and Symantec and reported out this week suggest that a majority of healthcare organizations are not yet able to comply with security and privacy requirements and standards,…
Last month Harvard Magazine ran a fantastic article on privacy in the current era, focusing in particular on the work of researcher Latanya Sweeney, who has demonstrated a somewhat alarming ability take personal data that has…
The HITECH portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included lots of financial incentives for health care providers to adopt and “meaningfully” use health information technology such as electronic health record systems. It also directed…
Word coming out of the Health IT Standards Committee last week is that the panel has approved a framework for the transmission of patient data from providers to federal government agencies such as the Centers for…
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