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• Paperless Solution to Help HR Professionals Address HIPAA Requirements - PR Web (press release)
  

  Paperless Solution to Help HR Professionals Address HIPAA Requirements PR Web (press release) PaperErasers, Inc. a premier provider of online document management and scanning services, today announced its offering of an HR module to address the growing challenges HR professionals face with HIPAA laws. PaperErasers, Inc. a premier provider of ... and more »

• Health department promotes Yellow Dot program - Freeport Journal-Standard
  

  Health department promotes Yellow Dot program Freeport Journal-Standard The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) includes strict guidelines for the release of medical information. However, since the Yellow Dot program is voluntary, it does not violate HIPAA rules, Beintema said. and more »

• HIPAA 5010: What's triggering denials and rejections - Government Health IT (blog)
  

  HIPAA 5010: What's triggering denials and rejections Government Health IT (blog) We've been using HIPAA 5010 standards to transmit electronic medical claims for a few weeks. How's that working? While it's tempting to assume that no news is good news, you should watch out for any medical claim rejections and denials.

• Does HIPAA Impact Consumer Consent Under the TCPA? - ACA International
  

  Does HIPAA Impact Consumer Consent Under the TCPA? ACA International Illinois district court finds HIPAA privacy regulations do not restrict a medical provider from giving a cell phone number to a debt collector. Some consumer attorneys have filed Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims alleging a debt collector lacks ...

• From Meaningful Use Stage 2 to stronger HIPAA regs, HHS gets ready to juggle - FierceEMR
  

  From Meaningful Use Stage 2 to stronger HIPAA regs, HHS gets ready to juggle FierceEMR FierceEMR gives hospital administrators, IT executives, and practice managers the must-know news and insights about modernizing patient information systems. Get your weekly email update on EMR adoption, implementation, incentives, security, and more. and more »

• AMA to House Speaker Boehner: Stop ICD-10 - CMIO
  

  AMA to House Speaker Boehner: Stop ICD-10 CMIO American Medical Association CEO James L. Madara, MD, wrote to House Speaker Boehner (R-Ohio) to urge him to take action against the implementation of ICD-10, informing him that the transition to ICD-10 as mandated by HIPAA would place a heavy burden ... AMA lobbies for ICD-10 delayFierceHealthIT all 7 news articles »

• Bipartisan center calls for increased HIE efforts, alignment of healthcare ... - FierceHealthIT
  

  Bipartisan center calls for increased HIE efforts, alignment of healthcare ... FierceHealthIT FierceHealthIT is the leading source of Healthcare IT news with a special focus on CPOE, EMR adoption, HIPAA compliance and other critical areas. Join 44,00 healthcare industry insiders who get FierceHealthIT via daily email for their must know IT news ... and more »

• Isabel, BMJ tool offers enhanced diagnosis decision support - FierceHealthIT
  

  Isabel, BMJ tool offers enhanced diagnosis decision support FierceHealthIT FierceHealthIT is the leading source of Healthcare IT news with a special focus on CPOE, EMR adoption, HIPAA compliance and other critical areas. Join 44,00 healthcare industry insiders who get FierceHealthIT via daily email for their must know IT news ... and more »

• ATandT Introduces Management Platform to Secure Tablets in Health Care - eWeek
  

  ATandT Introduces Management Platform to Secure Tablets in Health Care eWeek AT&T has launched a platform to allow health care professionals to manage data security on tablets and also unveiled a HIPAA-compliant mobile-messaging suite. AT&T has introduced a mobile device management platform for health care called Managed ... and more »

• 7 Tools To Tighten Healthcare Data Security - InformationWeek
  

  7 Tools To Tighten Healthcare Data Security InformationWeek In fact, mobile devices--including laptop computers, flash drives, and other portable gear--have been involved with some of the largest Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) breaches to date affecting 500 or more individuals, ... and more »

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• FBI seeks Big Brother-'Minority Report' hybrid
  
  

  Recognizing just how powerful a tool social-networking sites have become in orchestrating protests, rallies, and riots in the United States and beyond, the FBI is in the early stages of designing a complex system for monitoring tweets, Facebook status

• Facebook scammers redirect victims through Amazon's cloud
  

  Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor F-Secure.

  One Facebook survey scam recently analyzed by F-Secure uses malicious browser extensions to hijack Facebook accounts and post spam messages on their walls.

• Drive-by-download attack exploits critical vulnerability in Windows Media Player
  

  Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have come across a Web-based attack that exploits a known vulnerability in Windows Media Player.

  "Earlier today, we encountered a malware that exploits a recently (and publicly) disclosed vulnerability, the MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0003)," Trend Micro threat response engineer Roland Dela Paz said in a blog post on Thursday.

• How to prevent thumb drive security disasters
  

  For such a small device, the plastic, handheld USB flash drive can cause big security headaches. Even if you have robust end-point security and establish rigid policies about employee use of these drives, employees still find a way to copy financial reports and business plans for use at home. While other security breaches are more traceable, a flash drive is more difficult to monitor, especially after the employee leaves work.

• 15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all time
  

  In honor of National Data Privacy Day this Saturday, Jan. 28, we've put together a list of the 15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all time.

  These high-profile privacy scandals involve many underlying technologies, from search to social media, email to voice mail, mobile phones to Webcams to GPS. But at the heart of all of these privacy scandals are companies collecting personal data without the user's knowledge or consent and then either sharing it with third parties or simply failing to keep it safe.

• How does Google's new privacy policy compare?
  
  

  Some politicians, privacy advocates, and pundits have been stirred into a frenzy in the wake of Google's newly announced overarching privacy policy.

• Threatened by Anonymous, Symantec tells users to pull pcAnywhere's plug
  

  Symantec this week took the highly unusual step of telling users of its pcAnywhere remote access software to disable or uninstall the software while it fixes an unknown number of bugs.

  Security experts said the move was unprecedented for a company of Symantec's size.

  [ Find out how to block the viruses, worms, and other malware that threaten your business, with hands-on advice from InfoWorld's expert contributors in InfoWorld's "Malware Deep Dive" PDF guide. ]

• Google stirs up privacy hornet's nest
  

  Google has whipped up a privacy brouhaha with a blog post announcing that the company is rewriting its privacy policy, consolidating user information across its services.

• Goal of new security service: More involvement from ISPs, carriers
  

  There's a war underway throughout our networks, with carriers and ISPs in the thick of it. But for fear of network disruptions or increased cost of service, many ISPs and carriers have shied away from securing the traffic that flows through their wires.

• Google to combine users' data across its services
  

  Google will be able to combine data from several Google services when a Google Accounts user is signed in, as part of a rewritten set of privacy policies that the company announced on Tuesday.

• 2011: The year Mac malware got interesting
  
  

  For years, security professionals have argued that Mac OS X is just as prone to digital attack as the latest Windows system. Yet, Mac users have felt safer because, let's face it, few attackers focus on Macs.

• Google patches several serious Chrome bugs
  

  Google yesterday patched four vulnerabilities in Chrome, and disclosed that it had patched a fifth two weeks ago.

  The refresh of Chrome 16 was the second security-related update for the browser this month.

• Linux vendors rush to patch privilege escalation flaw after root exploits emerge
  

  Linux vendors are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel that can be exploited by local attackers to gain root access on the system.

  The vulnerability, which is identified as CVE-2012-0056, was discovered by Jüri Aedla and is caused by a failure of the Linux kernel to properly restrict access to the "/proc/<pid>/mem" file.

• Twitter acquires antimalware company Dasient
  

  Twitter has acquired Internet security firm Dasient, the Sunnyvale, California startup said on its blog on Monday.

  Dasient, which describes itself as a cloud-based Web antimalware technology company, introduced in 2010 a service to protect advertisement networks and publishers from malicious ads.

• The E.U.'s cynical campaign against U.S. cloud providers
  

  The U.S. government continues its attempts to quell controversy about U.S. jurisdiction over cloud data that U.S. companies store overseas. This "can be traced at least in part to early efforts at a sort of digital protectionism in the form of [E.U. member] state efforts to promote European cloud companies over their U.S.-based competitors.

• Security alert: Why compliance and privacy matter
  

  One bit of IT security dogma that's gone unquestioned over the years is the notion that every technology belongs to one of three pillars: confidentiality, integrity, and availability, also known by the abbreviation CIA. Traditionally, a security team is doing its job if it manages to protect the technologies that fall into those three buckets.

• Hacker releases 100,000 Facebook log-in credentials
  

  A hacker who claims to act in defense of Israel has released 100,000 credentials of allegedly Arab users of Facebook in an ongoing row between Israeli and Arab hackers.

  The hacker, who goes by the name Hannibal, posted the credentials in four parts on Pastebin on Saturday as well as making the details available on 14 file-sharing sites.

• The Oracle flaw: Clarifications and more information
  

  Since InfoWorld published "Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed" on Jan. 17, we've received abundant feedback from Oracle users and consulted with Oracle representatives, who went through the story point by point, offering clarifications and additional details, including information about the patches that address the flaw.

• Fake Megaupload sites pose a security risk
  

  The people behind Megaupload might be working hard to get the site back up, but so are scammers.

  Sites were popping up on Friday claiming to be the reincarnation of Megaupload, the popular website taken down by U.S. federal authorities on Thursday. But most of the imitators so far look like phishing sites, said Don Bowman, CTO for Sandvine, an Internet traffic equipment vendor.

• OpenSSL fixes DoS flaw introduced by critical DTLS patch
  

  The OpenSSL Project has released new versions of the popular OpenSSL library in order to address a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability that was introduced by a critical patch issued on Jan. 6.

  "A flaw in the fix to CVE-2011-4108 can be exploited in a denial of service attack," the OpenSSL developers warned in a newly published advisory. The issue has been addressed in the new OpenSSL 1.0.0g and 0.9.8t versions released on Wednesday.

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  Good video about network security, mentions HIPAA, security and the economics of spam. ABSTRACT Computer security has recently imported a lot of ideas from economics, psychology and sociology, leading to fresh insights and new tools. I will describe one thread of research that draws together techniques from fields as diverse as signals intelligence and sociology [...]
• 11 Years of HIPAA and it’s still not easy for consumers
  NPR did a good audio story on Morning Edition about the current state of HIPAA that is worth a listen. Holding on to health insurance can be a big challenge if you have a chronic disease or history of illness. But it wasn’t supposed to be that way. Eleven years ago this month, Congress passed [...]
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  Get started with HIPAA compliance by checking out these free checklists. You may want to build your own customized checklist when developing your strategy for complying with HIPAA. Bookmark this page, since it will be updated when we find more useful free HIPAA checklists. Free HIPAA Compliance Checklists Official CMS Provider HIPAA Checklist [PDF] CAL [...]
• Five Essential HIPAA Books for Beginners
  Here are five highly rated books (all available from Amazon.com) that are full of useful information for people who are new to the world of HIPAA compliance. If you are just learning the basics about HIPAA, these are a good place to start building your expertise. #1: Getting Started with HIPAA 608 pages – ISBN: [...]
• Top 10 highest-rated HIPAA books for IT Managers
  These are the top 10 essential HIPAA books for IT managers to read. Each of these popular titles was rated most highly useful by the cutomers at Amazon. #1 Most Highly Rated HIPAA book for IT Managers: The Black Book of Outsourcing: How to Manage the Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities Amazon.com’s description of this book: [...]
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• NeTLIMSâ„¢ Prepares its LIS Clients to Meet HIPAA 5010 Migration Rules
  NeTLIMSâ„¢ NJ, LLC, a provider of advanced Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), today announced that its clients are implementing and using new software that will allow them to comply with the HIPAA 5010 formats that have been mandated by CMS.Jersey City, NJ (PRWEB) January 05, 2012 NeTLIMSâ„¢ NJ, LLC, a provider of advanced Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), today announced that its clients are ...
• Health department promotes Yellow Dot program
  To Stephenson County Health Administrator Craig Beintema, participating in the Illinois Yellow Dot program is a great way for motorists to ensure that first responders are as well-informed as possible in the event of a serious crash or injury.    
• Donald B. Mark, Esq.: Health care power of attorney
  If you have gone to a doctor recently, you have probably encountered a form that concerns your privacy rights to your health care information. These forms are based upon a federal law known as HIPAA. This federal law protects our rights of privacy to important health care information.
• Affordable Care Act Provision Cuts Red Tape, Saves up to $4.5 Billion
  New standards for electronic funds transfers in health care, required by the Affordable Care Act, will reduce up to $4.5 billion off administrative costs for doctors and hospitals, private health plans, states, and other government health plans, over the next ten years, according to estimates included in new rules published today by the U.S.
• WPC Services Strengthens Security and Compliance Offerings in Wake of HITECH Preparations and Surging Data Breaches
  BRENTWOOD, TN-- - WPC Services , a full-service healthcare technology and business process consulting organization in Brentwood, Tenn., today announced that it is broadening the scope of its security consulting ...
• Catbird Unveils vSecurity 5.0 for Virtualized and Cloud Computing
  Catbird, a specialist in security and compliance for virtual, cloud andphysical networks, announced the next generation of its vSecurity platform, vSecurity 5.0, which integrates directly with the hypervisor to provide automated control, visibility and efficiency.
• ATandT Introduces Management Platform to Secure Tablets in Health Care
  AT&T has introduced a mobile device management platform for health care called Managed Tablets to provide a way for doctors to connect to hospitals' data networks securely.
• Catbird® Unveils Next Generation Security for Virtualized and Cloud Computing
  SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  Catbird , the pioneer in comprehensive security and compliance for virtual, cloud and physical networks, today announced the next generation of its ...
• Guide: The new rules for enterprise apps
  An insurance company decided to roll out an application for its sales reps. The new app would give them a wider selection of products to offer customers when out in the field. Information on those products was stored in a legacy mainframe system, so the company created a Web interface that let reps query the database to get details on offerings.
• The new rules for enterprise apps
  An insurance company decided to roll out an application for its sales reps. The new app would give them a wider selection of products to offer customers when out in the field. Information on those products was stored in a legacy mainframe system, so the company created a Web interface that let reps query the database to get details on offerings.

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