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Authasas Adds the Lumidigm Advantage to Its Advanced Authentication Platform

Posted on November 21, 2012 by David

Solution delivers reliable, convenient, secure, and compliant authentication at all points of access across the enterprise ALBUQUERQUE, NM — October 30, 2012 — Lumidigm today announced that enterprises can now authenticate users with Lumidigm multispectral imaging biometrics as part of … Continue reading →

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triCerat Introduces Cliptite™ to Help Ensure Data Loss Protection

Posted on November 19, 2012 by David

U.S. software developer triCerat is launching Cliptite™ today to help healthcare professionals secure sensitive data sharing and prevent data loss when using Windows Clipboard. Cliptite™ is designed specifically for remote desktop and application environments in hospitals and other healthcare settings … Continue reading →

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Verizon Offers Six Tips to Help Consumers Protect their Personal Health Information and Fight Health Care Fraud

Posted on November 17, 2012 by David

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – “The best protection against health care fraud in the U.S. is a cautious and vigilant consumer, and all of us should be aware of common tactics and abuses that are driving up our health care costs,” … Continue reading →

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HITRUST and (ISC)²® Partner to Develop Professional Standards for Credentialing in Healthcare Information Security

Posted on January 3, 2012 by David

With Healthcare Breaches on the Rise, New Alliance Will Help Fill Market Demand for Qualified Healthcare Security Pros Palm Harbor, Fla., U.S.A., December 12, 2012 – (ISC)²® (“ISC-squared”), the world’s largest information security professional body and administrators of the CISSP®, … Continue reading →

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‘Five rights’ for data administration

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Neil Versel

You know about the “five rights” for medication administrations: the right drug, for the right patient, in the right dosage, on the right route, at the right time. More recently we’ve seen “five rights” for effective clinical decision support: the … Continue reading →

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Facebook + health data = all sorts of HIPAA questions

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Neil Versel

“Time’s Person of the Year is Mark Zuckerberg. Sorry, Julian Assange, I guess you didn’t violate enough people’s privacy.” — Stephen Colbert, Dec. 15, 2010. Yes, Facebook has issues with privacy. Just Monday, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Center … Continue reading →

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Do you trust the cloud for EHRs?

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Neil Versel

Do you trust the cloud for EHRs? That’s the question I ask in my weekly post for EMR and HIPAA. Check it out, and share your opinion.

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Blogging by Twitter?

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Neil Versel

Oh man, I’ve been busy. I filled in as writer of the Midwest edition of Payers and Providers the last two weeks because regular editor Duncan Moore, a former colleague, had been hospitalized. (Get well soon, Duncan.) I’ve been at … Continue reading →

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Did hospital "kidnap" patient who wanted to leave?

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Katherine Rourke

    OK folks, I don’t know any more about the following story than you do, but if true, it’s an absolutely insane breakdown in hospital systems — one, I’d argue, that might not have happened in a hospital which had … Continue reading →

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Tweet roundup: Data loss at Thomas Jefferson, med records found in dump

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Katherine Rourke

Happy weekend!  Here’s a group of tweets from the past few days that might be worth a second look.  If you have tweets you’d like to see in our roundup please feel free to share them. Cheers, Anne Z. ____________________________________________________________ … Continue reading →

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