Welcome to the introductory post in our “Meaningful Outcomes” series on Identity Governance and Administration (IGA). If you are here and reading this, you probably do not need an introduction …
SECURITY
Driving Effective Privacy Operations with Functional Requirements
By Shawna Doran, Senior Manager, Tueoris, LLC and Dan Goldstein, Partner, Tueoris LLC In the run-up to May 25, 2018, many businesses that thought they were well-prepared to meet their …
Security Logging and Monitoring for EHRs
If you are like most medium or large healthcare providers these days, your Electronic Health Record (EHR) environment is likely a very complex one. Such complexity brings with it a …
Is your auditor or consultant anything like the OPM OIG?
The OPM breach has been deservedly in the news for over a month now. Much has been written and said about it across the mainstream media and the internet1. …
No, Security Privacy Is Not A Hindrance To TeleHealth Adoption
Since I follow the teleheath space rather closely from a security/privacy perspective, I was drawn yesterday to this article titled “How Health Privacy Regulations Hinder Telehealth Adoption”. From my experience, …
This is how the Anthem breach could have been stopped, perhaps
It has been just over a week since the Anthem breach was made public. Over this period, the mainstream media and many of the bloggers and commentators, as usual, have …
Patient Portals Make or Break
Like many other Health IT initiatives today, the primary driver for patient portals is regulatory in nature. Specifically, it is the Meaningful Use requirements related to view, download or transmit and …
Hello PCI SSC… Can we rethink?
This is a detailed follow-up to the quick post I wrote the Friday before the Labor Day weekend, based on my read at the time of the PCI SSC’s Special Interest Group …
Security is mostly basics, but talk is cheap
In most cases, better security posture is all about getting a few basics right. And this recent incident related to the breach of a Healthcare.gov server may be further proof …









