Health Information Trust Alliance (HITrust) news and information

Outliers is gonna file this one under “Physician, heal thyself.” It seems one of the more prominent organizations devoted to health IT data security ran into a little data security lapse. Yes, the Health Information Trust Alliance got hacked. Oops.
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Healthcare organizations seeking to maximize the number of patient records they can expose through a given security breach should consider contracting for professional help.I'm only being partially facetious.
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Healthcare organizations seeking to maximize the number of patient records they can expose through a given security breach should consider contracting for professional help. I'm only being partially facetious.
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Five health insurance carriers and a major drugstore chain will require their business associates to participate in an independent security-assessment program sponsored by the Health Information Trust Alliance, or HITRUST.
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Healthcare organizations' highest priorities for cybersecurity should include use of cryptography, isolation of highly sensitive information and creation of a reporting system for breach events to meet what is being described as a rising threat by data and identity thieves, according to an early...
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The Health Information Trust Alliance, Frisco, Texas, in reaction to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, has established a working group to address cybersecurity.
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The Health Information Trust Alliance offered its support for an effort by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) to raise awareness of what both call a growing cybersecurity threat.
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The Health Information Trust Alliance, a trade group known as HITrust formed to address data-security issues related to medical records, has created a work group on the de-identification of patient data.
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