Announcing the 6th Annual Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security Conference
May 21 & 22, 2013 – Ronald Reagan Center, Washington, D.C. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) are co-hosting the 6th annual conference Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security on May 21 & 22, 2013 at the Ronald Reagan Building and...
Read MoreBook: “Beginning of Infiniti”
I started this interesting book my brother gave me for Christmas. An underlying premise of the book is that knowledge breakthroughs come from new paradigms envisioned through creative thought, rather than through deduction and induction only after empirical observation. That these breakthroughs are validated when they prove resistant to falsification. Criticism is critical for this process,...
Read MoreGood Article on 2013 Data Security Threats
Today January 3, 2013, Health Data Management posted a good article on what looms ahead in 2013 regarding data security. And some excellent advise, including: “Take a data inventory, classify it by confidentiality or sensitivity level, and handle it accordingly.” –Click here for full...
Read MoreInformation Technology Architecture in Healthcare
The traditional best-of-breed approach in healthcare IT long ago fell out of favor. But with the promise of health information exchange (HIE) technology, web technology, single sign-on, SaaS and other technology advances there is a growing desire to plug disparate systems together. Yet to achieve the level of transformation ACO’s portend there is no panacea in these technology advances. ...
Read MoreOffice of Civil Rights on HIPAA/HITECH Enforcement
Leon Rodriguez from the Office of Civil Rights was recently interviewed about OCRs findings from their pilot audits and investigations. The direction is clear — covered entities need to have practical and comprehensive data security programs in place that start with a solid risk assessment and overall risk management plan. With a long “inventory” of OCR cases yet to be...
Read MoreCIO Baldwin’s blog — “Top Five”
Having decided to engage as an IT healthcare consultant I added a blog to my web site. My goal is to be thought provoking, principally to Healthcare IT professionals….. I was recently asked by the CEO of a Boston area software company my opinion as to the top 5 challenges keeping CIOs up at night. It’s a great question and one I thought about back in March 2012 preparing for a...
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