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Medicare Tests Alternative To Fraud-Fighting Smart Card
Magnetic stripe cards and conventional credit-card terminals may be a less costly way to go.
Integrated Security Reduces Health IT Data Breaches
PricewaterhouseCoopers finds fewer breaches in healthcare organizations that have integrated privacy and security compliance efforts.
HHS: Patient Data Breaches Have More Than Doubled
Better adherence to federal breach disclosure policies may explain the severe uptick in notifications in 2010, Department of Health and Human Services tells Congress.
HHS Unveils Personal Health Record Privacy Notice
The template will help consumers learn more about PHR security and data management practices, much like nutrition labels do for foods.
Medicare Smartcards Aim To Thwart Fraud, Waste
Bipartisan legislation would issue digital ID cards to 48 million Medicare enrollees, save $30 billion a year, say sponsors.
HIPAA Pain: How To Cope
Although providers worry about hugh fines for leaking patient data, keeping this information secure isn't that hard--but it soon will be.
Data Security Not High On Hospitals' Priority List
Fewer than half of large facilities conduct annual risk assessments, but that might have to change, according to CSC consultant.
Stanford Hospital Breach Exposes 20,000 ER Records
Spreadsheet uploaded to homework-help website exposed sensitive patient data for almost a year.
Electronic Health Records Face Many Insider Snoops
Nosy staff members committed most of the personal data breaches that hit more than 70% of healthcare organizations last year, survey says.
Verizon Adds Mobile Security To Healthcare Cloud
Doctors can access electronic health records, digitally sign
prescriptions from smartphones and tablets with NIST Level 3
authentication in Verizon's UIS-Healthcare cloud-based service.
Hurricane Irene Sparks Talk Of HIT Disaster Strategy
Health IT managers are looking at the damage done and reassessing their disaster planning strategies.
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The 10 Most Impactful Types of Vulnerabilities for Enterprises TodayManaging system vulnerabilities is one of the old est - and most frustrating - security challenges that enterprise defenders face. Every software application and hardware device ships with intrinsic flaws - flaws that, if critical enough, attackers can exploit from anywhere in the world. It's crucial that defenders take stock of what areas of the tech stack have the most emerging, and critical, vulnerabilities they must manage. It's not just zero day vulnerabilities. Consider that CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog lists vulnerabilitlies in widely used applications that are "actively exploited," and most of them are flaws that were discovered several years ago and have been fixed. There are also emerging vulnerabilities in 5G networks, cloud infrastructure, Edge applications, and firmwares to consider.
Incident Readiness and Building Response Playbook
In this special report, learn the Xs and Os of any good security incident readiness and response playbook.
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