No point in asking private entities to comply with FISMA

In what has become a consistent theme out of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, it seems the idea is still under consideration to try to require private-sector organizations to comply with the…

Not everyone agrees what is (and isn’t) personal information

Deliberations among European Union member countries made privacy headlines in early 2008 when Peter Scharr, data protection commissioner for Germany and leader of a group of EU data privacy regulators, while speaking at a European Parliament…

FISMA still being touted as best security for health information exchange

Coming out of the recent CONNECT User Training Seminar held this week in Washington, DC is a reiteration of the opinion previous expressed by federal stakeholders working on the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) that non-federal…