This week's top news: An in-depth analysis of a presidential council's report that calls for a universal exchange language for electronic health records.
This week's top news and views: Mobile and online P2P services offer banks and credit unions a competitive edge, and a new Aite report proves internal fraud is more damaging than most banks realize.
Mobile and online P2P services offer banks and credit unions a competitive edge, and a new Aite report proves internal fraud is more damaging than most banks realize.
This week's top news and views: IT employment ends 2010 near a two-year high; IT security jobs are on the rise in 2011; and giving non-IT executives the responsibility for IT risk.
"We need to be cyber savvy if we are going to participate in cybersecurity," says Ed Kanerva, vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton. "We cannot hire folks if they are not out there, so instead we train them to be cyber experts."
The hospital that is treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and other victims of the Jan. 8 shooting incident in Tucson, Ariz., has fired three staff members for inappropriately accessing confidential medical records.
A New Hampshire radiology practice is notifying more than 230,000 patients that they may have been affected by a healthcare information breach incident involving hackers using a server to gain bandwidth to play a video game.
The NSA looks to expand its cybersecurity, science and engineering workforce. "Our need for these skills is enormous; therefore, we need to be using cool high tech tools," says Kathy Hutson, agency associated director for human resources.
A federal judge sentenced a Colorado man to two years in prison for trying to inject malicious code into a Transportation Security Administration computer used to screen for potential terrorists.
The cost savings can be significant, but cloud computing also promises to help healthcare organizations manage risks and achieve business continuity goals.
On Jan. 14, a new workgroup advising federal regulators dug into the difficult task of figuring out whether a presidential council's recommendations for electronic health record interoperability are feasible.
When it comes to fraud prevention, things are going to be different in 2011. It's clear that fraud in the United States has reached a tipping point, and financial institutions are at the center of it all.
The hospital that is treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and other victims of the Jan. 8 shooting incident in Tucson, Ariz., deserves accolades not only for its care for the victims, but also for calling attention to an important privacy issue.
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