Health IT administrators have had to balance conflicting priorities in recent months as internal stakeholders push for greater innovation and industry regulators offer new data compliance mandates. Although there is no one-size-fits-all approach for equitably allocating resources toward these two ob...

Data breach scenarios are the stuff of nightmares among IT security professionals, but logic tells them that it may only be a matter of time before their organizations fall victim to an external attack or internal mistake. When disaster strikes, the degree of damage is often dependent on how teams h...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a long-awaited addendum to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The four previous provisions combined to create the comprehensive new rule, which is intended to bolster patient privacy protections while simul...

Effective cybersecurity is a highly mobile target, which makes threat information highly valuable for IT professions as they plan for which safeguards to implement. As eWeek columnist Robert Lemos recently noted, it can also serve as a justification for increases in data security spending. However, ...

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) recently released a report analyzing Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) data breach records. Noting that a large portion of these breaches involved lost or stolen laptops and mobile devices, the report concluded that data c...