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Healthcare Compliance and Security
High School Entrepreneurs Have Shot at $10,000 Through Contest
The way Clearwater businessman Kurt Long sees it, Florida's biggest economic asset is its young people's minds. That's why he helped start Next Generation Entrepreneurs. Read the article >>
Dame Fiona Caldicott to Review Patient Data Confidentiality
The people currently responsible for protecting the confidentiality of patient information in the UK are known as the Caldicott Guardians, so named after Dame Fiona Caldicott. Dame Fiona will now lead a new independent review into patient privacy.
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A Guide to Healthcare Privacy Law Compliance
Healthcare leaders must be proactive in leveraging their investments to maximize compliance efforts and get the most out of privacy dollars. Read the article >>
Clearwater-based fraud-tracking company in
growth boom
FairWarning develops systems that embed inside a hospital or clinic's software and track every time someone accesses a medical record. Anyone not authorized will trigger an automatic red flag, helping keep the organization in compliance with federal medical privacy laws.Read the article >>
 NHS patient privacy: time to take action for the sake of Britain's healthThe NHS must protect patient data if it is to succeed in the vital task of harnessing the immense power of electronic systems in order to deliver better care.
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 HIPAA Updates: What's the Hold Up? FairWarning® featured in testimony in U.S. Senate Hearings regarding HITECH updates by Deven McGraw, Director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology.
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 U.K. patients demand higher security for medical records Survey, released by FairWarning, Inc., details the overwhelming demand for tighter protections against data theft of medical records.
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 Fears over medical record privacy could deter patients seeking treatment, finds survey Patient fears over the security of medical records could have a negative effect on their health. Patients are holding information back from medical organisations with a poor record in protecting confidential data, according to a survey.
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 Public Confidence in NHS Integrity is Under Threat from Staff Breaches of Confidential Patient Information The ability to share computerised patient information represents one of the great hopes for the NHS as it battles to build a sustainable future. Trusts across England are investing tens of millions of pounds in the latest generation of advanced electronic health record (EHR) systems to improve productivity, efficiency and outcomes. Yet along with the benefits comes risk - the immense potential damage from patient privacy breaches.
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NHS Wales Pilots Privacy Alert Software
NHS Wales is using FairWarning privacy monitoring software at two pilot sites to monitor access to patient records through the Welsh Clinical Portal. The NHS Wales Informatics Service said a six month pilot project of the Northgate Managed Services software is being run in Hywel Dda Health Board looking at use of the Portal by Prince Philip Hospital, Llanelli and West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen.
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Scotland Gets FairWarning of Breaches Northgate Managed Services has won contract to roll-out its FairWarning privacy surveillance system across Scotland. The move follows a pilot in NHS Lothian, which Northgate says "resulted in immediate and significant improvements to the protection of almost one million patients' data in the region."
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FairWarning featured in "WikiLeaks Breach Raises Concern About Privacy of Electronic Medical Records"
The embarrassing leak of a quarter-million State Department documents by WikiLeaks has recharged the debate over electronic medical records, raising concern that the government may not be capable of safeguarding Americans' most intimate health care secrets when their records go digital.
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FairWarning Article, "Electronic Medical Records: Privacy is a Priority"
If you live in Texas, your medical records are definitely up for sale by the state. If you live anywhere else in the United States, they probably are for sale there, too.
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FairWarning Article, "Easily Preventable Privacy Breaches Cost Hospitals Millions"
Though there is the perception in many quarters that HIPAA privacy enforcement has been lax over the years, the HHS Office for Civil Rights investigated and resolved at least 11,421 cases of alleged violations from the time the regulations took effect in April 2003 through July 2010, a new report says.
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FairWarning Article, "Explosion of Patient Data Privacy Breaches Can Be Costly"
There has been a surge in costly patient data privacy breaches among US healthcare providers, notes a recent white paper.
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FairWarning Article, "HOW Many Patient Privacy Breaches Per Month?"
As regular readers know, I tend to avoid blogging about commercial products and am leery about reporting results from studies that might be self-serving, but a new paper from FairWarning has some data that I think are worth mentioning...
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FairWarning Feature Article, "Steady Bleed: State of Healthcare Privacy Breaches"
Study reveals that, for many healthcare providers, patient data breaches continue - month after month - at an alarming rate.
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FairWarning Feature Article, "FairWarning Foils EMR Privacy Breaches"
Data definition guides help hospitals and healthcare offices detect, notify, and prevent privacy violations in electronic medical records.
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FairWarning Feature Article, "Securing Electronic Health Records"
Electronic health records are supposed to improve the efficiency and accuracy of healthcare delivery. However, with electronic records come security headaches, and the potential for data breaches.
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FairWarning Feature Article, "Firm Issues Breach Detection Lessons"
FairWarning Inc., a vendor of privacy breach detection software for health care organizations, has released the first of three best-practice guidance documents based on its implementation experience with more than 300 hospitals and 1,200 clinics.
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FairWarning Customer Featured in "Hospitals Take Steps to Stop Snoops"
When word got out that Tiger Woods crashed his Cadillac Escalade outside his Isleworth home and ended up at Health Central Hospital the day after Thanksgiving, the tabloid media launched a ruthless hunt for his private medical records.
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FairWarning Customer Featured in "Healthcare organizations are finding security, privacy cures"
Healthcare organizations are energetically seeking cures for managing identity and security in fast-paced hospital environments to help physicians and nurses do their jobs more easily -- and to keep patient data safe.
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FairWarning Feature Article, "What is keeping healthcare leaders up at night?"
HIPAA audits drive business for privacy software firm
FairWarning, a supplier of health care privacy auditing systems based in St. Petersburg, Fla., reported revenues for the first six months of 2008 more than doubled over the same period last year.
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Audit Software gives hospitals "FairWarning"
Hospitals are turning to auditing software in response to concerns about patient information security and privacy.
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HIPAA ENFORCEMENT AND THE FUTURE OF THE EHR
If we are to reap the benefits of electronic health records, health care providers must silence criticism from the paper dinosaurs--those unwilling to leave behind paper records--and welcome a sensible model for sustained HIPAA privacy and security auditing.
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The Impact of EHRs and Medical Identity Theft on Patient Safety
Safeguarding patients' privacy is of the utmost importance as implementation of EHRs grows, but another matter, protecting patients' emotional and financial well-being in securing their medical records, is an increasing concern. Read the article>>
Breaking down medical identity theft", "Enlightened Organizations Are Taking Action
"...leading organizations are taking their information security obligations seriously under HIPAA. This includes implementing some of the more difficult sections of HIPAA law,..."
The Privacy Advisor is a membership benefit of the International Association of Privacy Professions (IAPP). If you are interested in joining the IAPP please visit www.privacyassocation.org. Used with permission. Copyright © 2007 International Association of Privacy Professionals. All rights reserved.
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Electronic Health Record Briefings, April 2007
Medical identity theft raises new questions for EHRs
Proactively address emerging privacy and security challenges
"Healthcare information systems and EHRs provide remarkable efficiency and quality of care benefits relative to patient care. However, a rogue hospital insider can use that same digital leverage to commit information crimes against patients and your institution." Read the article>>
FairWarning, Cover Story, Healthcare IT News
New IT buzzwords - Medical identity theft
"It's the first information crime that could actually jeopardize your life", Read the article>>
ONCOLOGY TIMES
Medical Identity Theft: More Common than Generally Known, Cancer Patients Among the Most Vulnerable
"Medical identity theft is stealing health information for personal profit. If that sounds like a strange thing to do, it is, but it is more common than generally thought..." Read the article (pdf) >>
Identity Theft Survey Reveals Consumers are Concerned About Privacy and Protection
Risk to Life and Health, Altered Medical Records and Loss of Confidentiality Rank Among Top Fears Related to Medical Identity Theft. Read the article>>
FairWarning Cover Article, Radiology Today
Fighting Fraud & Identity Theft in Radiology
Identity theft in healthcare can take many forms, such as the Texas man who posed as a chiropractor and submitted more than 1,300 fraudulent claims for radiology services before being caught. Read the article>>
FairWarning Cover Article
Health Leaders - "Addressing the Growing Threat of Medical Identity Theft"
Although healthcare leaders recognize that protecting patient health information is a vital component of patient safety, stories of medical identity theft persist. This article explores common internal security risks, specific documented criminal cases of medical identity theft as well as deterring risky behaviors in a healthcare organization. Read the article>>
FairWarning Cover Article - ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals
ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals. "The Grave Cost of Medical Identity Theft"
This article explores the growing trend of medical identity theft, reveals common criminal scenarios, examines Federal government statistics and discusses how healthcare organizations can comprehensively address the risks in their environment. Read the article >>
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