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Data Privacy and Standards – Fun Friday

September 27, 2019

Fall is upon us and that means the crazy fall conference season. At least it does for me and the team at Healthcare Scene. There’s always so much going...

The Lights and Darks of Transparency, in a New Book about Health Care

September 19, 2019

The health care field is notoriously inscrutable, leading many reformers to hope that we can lower costs, improve communications, and inform policy by...

NHS Patient Data Could Generate Billions For UK, But Is It OK To Go Down That Road?

August 5, 2019

I don’t know about you, but I don’t like the idea of governments selling off patient healthcare data. Still, given the financial benefits it could...

More Than 3 Million Patient Records Breached During Q2 2018

August 15, 2018

A new study by data security vendor Protenus has concluded that more than 3 million patient records were breached during the second quarter of 2018, in a sharp...

Is Health Data Privacy On Its Way Out?

April 30, 2018

As healthcare providers gradually improve their HIPAA data security and privacy compliance, one might think that the odds of a breach occurring are getting...

Thoughts on Privacy in Health Care in the Wake of Facebook Scrutiny

April 13, 2018

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A lot of health IT experts are taking a fresh look at the field’s (abysmal) record in protecting patient data, following the shocking Cambridge Analytica...

Some Important Tips On Telemedicine Security

March 22, 2018

Recently, WEDI released a paper offering a pretty basic overview of the main categories of telemedicine services. From my standpoint, most of the paper...

When It Comes To Security Threats, Doctors Are Less Aware

February 22, 2018

A new study suggests that while most healthcare employees aren’t very aware of privacy and security threats, doctors may be further behind. According to the...

Dogged By Privacy Concerns, Consumers Wonder If Using HIT Is Worthwhile

May 17, 2017

I just came across a survey suggesting that while we in the health IT world see a world of possibilities in emerging technologies, consumers aren’t so sure...

E-Patient Update: Reducing Your Patients’ Security Anxiety

March 31, 2017

Even if you’re not a computer-savvy person, these days you can hardly miss the fact that healthcare data is a desirable target for cyber-criminals. After all...