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Are providers ripe for a massive medical records heist?

 Tom Sullivan January 14, 2013
Stolen health records are worth five orders of magnitude more than financial ones -- and as mobile devices, electronic information exchange, and healthcare cloud repositories proliferate across an industry lagging in encryption practices, those health records might become more alluring to organized criminals.
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11 data security tips for a healthy organization in 2013

 Rick Kam January 08, 2013
Rick Kam collects a cadre of tactics from colleagues about the best ways to safeguard patient information from assessing risk to big data and controlling the cloud, to attacking your own leadership with phishing and social engineering campaigns.
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HIE and the patient privacy conundrum

 Tom Sullivan December 18, 2012
Buried within the latest Ponemon Institute study are some perhaps surprising statistics indicating that privacy and security are scaring a substantial chunk of providers away from joining a health information exchange.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

 Tom Sullivan December 13, 2012
ONC's annual meetup, Privacy & Security Forum, mHealth Summit and the industrial revolution ... it's This Week in Government Health IT.
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Infographic: Biggest healthcare data breaches of 2012

 Erin McCann December 12, 2012
Healthcare IT News' top 10 list of the largest healthcare data breaches of 2012 should send a blaring message: Healthcare organizations are not taking the steps necessary to protect patients' personal health information.
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5 steps to protect patient privacy

Rick Kam December 07, 2012
Rick Kam of ID Experts and Ponemon Institute chairman Larry Ponemon share tactics gleaned from the field research that produced this year’s report on Patient Privacy and Data Security. Consider them starting points.
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5 steps to protect patient privacy

Larry Ponemon, PhD December 07, 2012
Rick Kam of ID Experts and Ponemon Institute chairman Larry Ponemon share tactics gleaned from the field research that produced this year’s report on Patient Privacy and Data Security. Consider them starting points.
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Q&A: Health orgs don't protect patient data for reasons going 'back to the industrial revolution'

 Tom Sullivan December 06, 2012
A study published Thursday by the Ponemon Institute finds data breaches skyrocketing and medical ID theft on a concerning upswing. Perhaps the deepest cause of the problem is that the industry still lacks any way to put a dollar value on its data.
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13 ways to guard against mobile device risks

 Michelle McNickle June 21, 2012
Mobile devices pose a large and growing threat to healthcare data, not to mention the fines and lawsuits breaches could bring. Here is a baker's dozen of tips for safeguarding health information in this increasingly mobile world.
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PHI Project: Don't ignore breach consequences

 Bernie Monegain March 05, 2012
Newly-minted alliance formed to help healthcare entities deal with PHI breaches growing in frequency and magnitude.
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Q&A: How a health 'data spill' could be more damaging than what BP did to the Gulf

 Tom Sullivan December 05, 2011
The healthcare industry lags when it comes to protecting sensitive personal information, even as medical records are worth orders of magnitude more than other types data. A wake-up call could be in the offing.
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3 steps to minimize 'data breach epidemic'

Chris Anderson December 01, 2011
Ponemon's second annual security study found the number of breaches soaring on the back of sloppy mistakes, mobile devices, and shrinking hospital resources.
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SSO can save a provider $2 million

 Government Health IT Staff June 01, 2011
A vendor-sponsored Ponemon study finds that single sign-on technologies can save clinicians as much as three weeks a year in time otherwise spent accessing various electronic medical records.
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Healthcare providers fail to heed HITECH privacy safeguards, says report

Mary Mosquera November 09, 2010
About three-fourths of participants said hospitals have inadequate resources to protect patient data and prevent breaches, says privacy researcher.
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