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The Health IT Policy Committee on June 8 accepted a recommendation that all organizations participating in the Nationwide Health Information Network initiative (NwHIN) should use digital certificates that meet the same authentication standards already required for federal agencies. Ultimate approval for the recommendation falls on the Department of Health and Human Services. One of the main motivations [...] The Department’s Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) provides leadership for the development and nationwide implementation of an interoperable health information technology (HIT) infrastructure. ONC is charged with guiding the nationwide implementation of interoperable HIT to reduce medical errors, improve quality, produce greater value for health care expenditures, ensure that patients’ individually identifiable health information is [...] Last week, I summarized the Health and Human Services Health Information Technology Policy Committee Privacy and Security Tiger Team (Tiger Team)’s findings. As a reminder, their charge was to “make short-term and long term recommendations to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) on privacy and security policies and practices that well help build public trust in health [...] Last winter, the Health and Human Services Health Information Technology Policy Committee gave the following broad charge to the Privacy and Security Tiger Team (Tiger Team). The charge is as follows: “The Tiger Team is charged with making short-term and long term recommendations to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) on privacy and security policies and [...] With the National Health Information Network Direct (NHIN Direct) working to create a standard for the transfer of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), the need for segmented and secure patient records is becoming apparent to all who are working on this technology. A segmented EHR would allow for providers with different roles to access only the portions [...] Surveys have shown that the majority of Americans are “very concerned” about identity theft or fraud (80 percent), the use of their medical information for marketing purposes (77 percent), and that their data might become available to employers or insurance companies (56 and 55 percent, respectively). At the same time, 89 percent of respondents say that [...] With everyone using smart phones for personal use, will the government be forced to accept them in the work place? According to Cisco data traffic numbers, global mobile data traffic will increase by a factor of 26 by 2015. With all those phones in service, there will be overlap with the workplace. Linda Cureton, the CIO of [...] Each time a person registers with a new website, they are required to share personal identifying information. This can include names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and usernames and passwords. This information is vulnerable to a number of threats. Untrustworthy organizations can sell the information, thereby exposing a person to unsolicited telephone calls, mailings, and spam [...] Having your credit card stolen is a major concern for any cardholder. Combine that with the responsibility of buying supplies for the government and it is enough to lose sleep over. Attacks on payment card processing systems are on the rise. Organized internet thieves target all sizes of on-line merchants. According to a study by the [...] How will you stay safe when surfing the web this new year? We’d like to offer some tips. Security takes up a large part of our work in building a web site for the DOD. As we try to keep current on new web attacks, we often find vulnerabilities that cannot easily be fixed. It seems [...] |
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