Can Electronic Medical Records Be Secured?
Policing medical records is difficult. Developers are working on algorithms to search for potential data breaches. For example, software searchers for healthcare workers accessing medical records of people with the same last name, or living at addresses near their own home, based on the possibility that they might be snooping on family members or neighbors....
Categories: Healthcare, Uncategorized Tags: HIMSS, HIPAA, Medical Records
Physical hospital security
Great article about physical hospital security at St. Bernadine's in California
Categories: Healthcare, Uncategorized Tags: California, hazmat, HIMSS
Healthcare providers facing security challenges
Article in Information Week about the 2009 HIMSS security survey. ...E-mail encryption and single sign-on were the security technologies not present in organizations that were most likely to be installed in the future, according to the report....
Categories: Healthcare, Uncategorized Tags: HIMSS, Symantec
