Technologies for electronic information security and privacy...

Ensuring the security and privacy of health information requires using sophisticated technologies.

Here are some of the key technologies, in layman language and relevant articles.

• Application Service Provider (ASP)
  Security Issues
• Biometrics
• CAS
• Cryptography
• Digital Signature
• Disaster Recovery
• Disk Sanitization
• Securing Electronic Communications
• Fax Server
• Firewalls:
  • A Primer
  • Firewalls: Part II
  • NIST Guidelines on Firewalls and Firewall Policy
• Identity Management
• Information Lifecycle Management
• Intrusion Classification and
• Intrusion Detection
• P2P (Peer to Peer)
• P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences)
• Passwords
• PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
• PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
  • PKI Forum White Papers on PKI Policy and Interoperability Issues
  • National HealthKey Program Multi-state Healthcare PKI Initiative
• Proxy Server
• Radio Frequency ID
• S/MIME
• Security Protocols
• Smart Cards
• Threat Management
• Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in Healthcare
• Vulnerability Scanning
• Wireless

SearchSecurity.com
security specific search engine

NIST Security Guides
Draft & Final Versions

SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities
(version 6.01, updated 11/05)

Find the Top 20 Vulnerabilities on Your Systems & Networks (PDF)
Tools and services you can use to scan your systems without installing new software (ver. 6, updated 11/05)

HIPAA and Its Legal
Implications (PDF)
for healthcare IT solution providers such as software vendors, ASPs, and systems integrators

HIPAA and MCOs: Admin.
Simplification or
IT Modernization?
from Health Mgmt. Technology

Internet Privacy:
Implementation
of Federal Guidance for
Agency Use of "Cookies"
GAO Report (PDF)

Know the Rules, Use the Tools
(PDF) Privacy Guide from Senate
Judiciary Committee

National Strategy to Secure
Cyberspace (NSSC)

Security Advisory Sites

The Security of Applications:
Not All Are Created Equal (PDF)
a how-to on application security
best practices

Top 10 Info Security Threats
by SK Parmar, excerpted from his
Introduction to Security Manual

UCLA Annual Internet Project
Long-term study with year-to-year
results explores how computers, IT,
and their users are affecting society

Tech Articles

Try Online Data Backup by Robert Lowes, Medical Economics, December 1, 2006
Data backup has been a problem child of medical computing. For most doctors, it's meant copying their files every day onto tapes and taking them home. But many practices forget to do that, or do it incorrectly, or forget to replace worn-out tapes (one reason why the track record of successfully restoring a computer system from tape is notoriously spotty). And hauling around tapes—means they occasionally get lost or stolen. Did somebody say HIPAA?

IT Gets HIPAA by Richard Haugh, Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine, September 2006
As more ‘smart devices’ are used for patient care, the challenge to keep data secure grows

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