Nice short article in Healthcare Informatics on WLAN security. Written by Bob Hedglen at UPMC, he details the risks and provides a nice summary of the requirements:
We decided our WLAN installation required a documented security policy,
use of data encryption, authentication of every device and user,
verification of ongoing policy enforcement and security incident
reporting. The system had […]
Earlier today there was the CMS' teleconference on HIPAA enforcement
(you know, your name in the papers, fines, lots of quality time with lawyers). It was a great session with
lots of good reference info and guidance. (You can download the
presentation here.) All that talk about enforcement got me to thinking…
HIPAA privacy and security regulations
apply to […]
It seems a critical stakeholder in EMR adoption, patients, has drunk the Kool-Aid. Accenture surveyed (press release) 519 health care consumers (aren't we all health care consumers?) over
the Internet who had seen a general practitioner or medical specialist
in the past 10 years. No other respondent demographics are provided. In
a summary of findings, consumers believe that […]
