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British Electronic Health Care Records – Will U.S. Organization’s Learn Lessons?

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Last week, Great Britain announced that it is “dismantling” a government program aimed at making health care records available electronically.  The objective of the program was to better facilitate communications between doctors, clinics, and patients.  The program, which began in 2002, was budgeted at $19 billion to implement.  As Dr. David J. Brailer, national coordinator for health information technology […]

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Federal Indictment Highlights Businesses Lack of Comprehensive Data Governance Controls

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After three years of investigations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington announced on Wednesday that they have indicted three men for allegedly committing crimes where technological and conventional methods were utilized.  The trio is alleged to have use a technique called ‘wardriving’, using a vehicle to detect a business’ wireless network and gain […]

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WSJ OpEd on “Cloud Security” Misses Its Target

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In Friday’s (September 16,2011) edition of The Wall Street Journal, Mr. John Bussey wrote an OpEd article about small to mid-sized businesses (“SMB”), and how they are opting to leverage the advantages of cloud providers.  The author reports that the SMB market has become more sophisticated when it comes to choosing which provider to outsource its […]

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Stanford Hospital Patient Data Publicly Available for 1 year – Do HIPAA laws really work?

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On Friday, September 9, 2011, Stanford Hospital disclosed that over 20,000 patient records were publicly posted on a commercial Web site, which included the names of the patients, admission and release dates, and diagnosis codes.  The information had been publicly  available for almost one year.  The New York Times reported that “[s]ince discovering the breach last […]

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Data Governance Protocols Can Prevent Retaliation by Ex-employees

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With a greater reliance on the use of IT systems to support the overall mission of an organization, businesses need to understand the importance of implementing data governance protocols into its overall employment practices.  Securing the accessibility of mission-critical information is just one of the major tenets to a businesses long-term viability, and unless an organization takes […]

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NLRB Rules Some Facebook and Twitter ‘Rants’ are Protected by Federal Law

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The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) recently concluded that employers may not discipline or terminate an employee for engaging in some forms of communication on social media sites, like Facebook and Twitter.  The reasoning behind this ruling is that if the employee is engaged in “protected concerted activity” whereby they are discussing terms and conditions […]