Privacy & Security
2013 has been a big year in the world of healthcare information technology.
View our photos of the Healthcare IT News and HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum. The Boston-based event collected more than 250 health IT personalities and many industry leaders to discuss policies, procedures, problems and solutions.
Since the 2009 Breach Notification Rule included in HITECH Act, 489 HIPAA-covered entities have reported breaches involving 500 individuals or more. View this slideshow to see a collection of the nation's biggest healthcare data breaches.
As required by the HITECH Act, HHS must make public a list of breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more individuals. This slideshow features five of the healthcare data breaches that have occurred this year.
Our final slideshow in this series featuring the HIMSS 50 in 50 recipients spotlights HIMSS' most recent landmark contributors.
Our fourth slideshow of HIMSS 50 in 50 award recipients features the Society's most noteworthy healthcare IT contributors of the 1990s.
The third in this series of "HIMSS 50 in 50" slideshows looks at the 1980s' most significant Society members.
In our second slideshow of this series, we look at the "HIMSS 50 in 50" award recipients who made their landmark contributions to health IT during the 1970s.
In its 50th year, HIMSS honors 50 health IT professionals for their contributions to the field in the last half-century. This week, we'll feature the 50 recipients with a photo slideshow for each decade of the Society's history.
The following breaches of unsecured protected health information were reported to the Health and Human Services Secretary, in accordance with the HITECH Act.
