Privacy & Security

A patient requested his medical records and did not receive them for six months - after the OCR stepped in - agency says. 

<p>The challenge of cybersecurity at The Admiral at the Lake is protecting senior residents living independently, says IT director Zina Kind.</p>

<p>Health equity requires that governments and institutions think not just about interoperability but internet connection in the protection and sharing of information, says Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS.</p>

<p>Interoperability rulemaking thinks in terms of standards while AI can translate, says John Nebergall, COO of Consensus Cloud Solutions.</p>

Fifty-three percent of medical devices have vulnerabilities known to cybercriminals, says Mark Bowling of ExtraHop.

An internal investigation finds the private information of approximately 11 million patients was compromised.

<p>The nonprofit organization is digitizing standards for quality care called HEDIS measures using CQL language, says Edward Yurcisin, NCQA’s chief technology officer.</p> <p> </p>

<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Steven Ramirez, CISO at Renown Health, and Steve Cagle, CEO at Clearwater, said their organizations have teamed up to ensure better security from a HIPAA and threat actor perspective.</span></span></span></p>

<p>Understand what is written – and what is not – in HIPAA requirements, says Chad Peterson, managing director at NetSPI.</p>

The Illinois Catholic health system has signed a nonbinding letter of intent with OSF Healthcare to acquire the Peru campus.