The U.S. Labor Department should try to make the regulations governing the security of information at retirement plans and health benefits plans as similar as possible, and leave room for technology changes. The panel, better known as the ERISA Advisory Council, advises the U.S. Labor Department and...
via Fierce Government IT The Health and Human Services inspector general is pushing for inclusion of addition security controls in national standards for electronic health records. In an audit dated May 16, the HHS IG says the Office of Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Techn...
via Marketwire PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ–(Marketwire – May 10, 2011) – A smart card-based Medicare identity card could save the United States $370 billion over 10 years, according to Kelli Emerick, executive director of the Secure ID Coalition. Speaking at the Smart Card Alliance 2011...
via InfoSecurity The New York City Health and Hospital Corp. (HHC) said that personal information of nearly 1.7 million hospital patients, staff, vendors, and contractors was stolen from a GRM Management Information Services van. The data breach affected patients, staff, vendors and contractors at t...