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On May 31, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights proposed a new rule recommending that patients have the right to ask for a report on who has accessed their medical records. The recommendation has been out for public comment since that time. A number of healthcare organizations including the Medical Group [...] At Defcon, I aquired a new tech hero. Defcon is all about finding vulnerabilities. The glory goes to the most creative and most damning hacks. I’m not condemning hackers. I think the world is more secure because of them. But it bothers me that all the glory goes to breaking in, but there is no glory [...] It appears that the health care industry lacks understanding of basic information technology security. Dr David Lee Scher, MD, just wrote an article for the Healthcare IT and Technology blog outlining five things healthcare providers should know about electronic health care record security. From his article, it is obvious that health care workers could use some [...] Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada, is recognized as one of the leading privacy experts in the world. She has been working with a concept called Privacy by Design for over 20 years. The idea is that Privacy should be designed into systems from the beginning, not added as an afterthought. Systems designers should [...] |
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