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Health care organizations see cyberattacks as growing threat

Health care organizations feel under increasing attack from the Internet, while security incidents involving insiders and disappearing laptops with sensitive data are piling up. On top of that, there's now the prospect of a surprise audit from the federal government agency in charge of overseeing the HIPAA security and privacy rules.Health care organizations are stepping up efforts to protect electronic patient information as they witness increased attacks against hospital networks, mindful how a data breach could hurt patients and their own reputations."There is definitely an uptick in attacks," says Dr. John Halamka, CIO at both Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in the Boston area. "Privacy is the foundation of everything we do. We don't want to be the TJX of healthcare." TJX is the Framingham, Mass-based retailer which last year disclosed a massive data breach involving customer records.Dr. Halamka, who this week announced a project in electronic health records as an online service to the 300 doctors in the Beth Israel Deaconess Physicians Organization, acknowledges computers in health care are sometimes compromised as spam relays or to host unauthorized content such as porn."It gives attackers a means to distribute it," says Halamka. While he has seen no evidence of attackers targeting health care networks to steal patient data for financial gain, other security experts say that dangerous trend is well under way."Health care organizations store a lot of valuable personal, identifiable information such as Social Security numbers, names, addresses, age, in addition to banking and credit-card information," says Don Jackson, researcher at Atlanta-based security services firm SecureWorks.SecureWorks has recorded an 85 percent increase in the number of attempted attacks directed toward its health care clientele by Internet hackers, with these attempts jumping from 11,146 per health care client per day in the first half of 2007 to an average of 20,630 per day in the last half of last year through January of this year.SecureWorks believes that some of the most sought-after information is from patients who are members of preferred medical network plans, which hackers turn around and sell as credentials to criminals specializing in illegal immigration."Credentials information is usually stolen via targeted cyberattacks," says Jackson, adding he's seen several cases where health insurance credentials were sold to criminals in the counterfeit document racket, especially in Central and South America.Insider attacks are also a worry. Tenet Healthcare, which owns more than 50 hospitals in a dozen states, last month disclosed a security breach involving a former billing center employee in Texas who pled guilty to stealing patient personal information. He got nine months in jail.And in an identity fraud case in Sarasota, Fla., last month, an office cleaner who gained access to the patient files of an anesthesiologist who rented an office at HealthSouth Ridgelake Hospital pled guilty to fraud for ordering credit cards on the Internet with stolen patient personal information. He got two years' jail time.Lost and stolen laptops have also been a problem, with disclosure of missing personal information related to patients or employees at Duluth, Minn.-based Memorial Blood Center, Mountain View, Calif.-based Health Net, Sutter Lakeside Hospital at Lakeside, Calif., and the West Penn Allegheny Health System revealed just within the last three months.The HIPAA surprise audit Besides the loss of confidence such security incidents provoke, the specter of government regulatory probes is looming related to the federal security and privacy rules in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees HIPAA compliance, has contracted with the firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) to conduct surprise audits of hospitals this year, says Gartner analyst Barry Runyon."It's complaint-driven," says Runyon, noting that Tony Trenkle, director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at HHS, last month publicly said the first 10 or so reviews will be at hospitals where CMS received complaints about security. In visiting the health care organization, the government regulatory probe will focus on security risks associated with remote access to data and portable storage concerns, with security managers expected to answer a lot of questions.CMS plans to publish the results of these audits on its Web site but not the organization's name, unless it uncovers major lapses, which could result in fines or other penalties as defined under the HIPAA guidelines. Last month, Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital was revealed by HHS to be the first unannounced HIPAA security audit.Health care, heal thyself IT managers indicated they're taking proactive steps to secure external network access while also ensuring that authorized network users are limited to seeing only what they rightfully should.At Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, the policy there is very strict about employees even looking at patient records without reason. "It's the curiosity factor," says Jack Nelson, CIO at Mt. Sinai, who notes that employees are told when hired they can be fired for online peeking -- and some have been."It's one strike and you're out -- and that's [for] clinicians as well," says Nelson, noting that the hospital's systems are generally role-based and keep track of every single access to a record.Nelson says his biggest concern is not hackers trying to break in but sensitive data flying out over the network, including Mt. Sinai's voluminous clinical-lab test documentation. So Mt. Sinai recently installed Symantec data-loss prevention software on client computers to monitor outbound traffic.HIPAA isn't the only set of security and privacy regulations that Mt. Sinai cares about. "When you have a data loss of about the magnitude of 10 patient records, you have to report that to the New York State Dept. of Health," says Nelson. "That's a serious violation."Like Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Miami-based health benefits company AvMed Health Plans is also making use of data-loss prevention monitoring equipment to make sure sensitive data related to health claims is transferred appropriately.Some e-mail communications with physicians' offices and hospitals must be encrypted under the HIPAA guidelines, notes Charles Hibnick, chief systems security architect at AvMed. The Palisades PacketSure monitoring equipment deployed since last October provides a way to determine that policy is being followed since it flags errors that might occasionally occur, such as someone forgetting to encrypt an e-mail's content."People sometimes say thank you when we catch this," says Hibnick. The monitoring is increasingly important since about 80 percent of health claims at AvMed are electronic, rather than predominantly fax, as they were just five years ago.The prospect of an unannounced HIPAA audit by the government is an event that could shake anyone up, but in the final analysis, the federal probes are probably good for the health care industry, says Mark Jacobs, director of technology services in the datacenter operations at Pennsylvania-based WellSpan Health."HIPAA did help in some regard, getting the health information community to do audit, logging, and secure messaging and encryption," Jacobs notes, adding HIPAA has propelled his health care organization into new practices, such as adopting a security governance framework, single sign-on, and password provisioning.

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(InfoWorld) - Jabber creator Jeremie Miller is joining Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and Wikia, in building an open-source, community-driven search service. Jabber is an open protocol that lets instant messaging services interoperate. Miller will serve as technical lead of the open-source search project. Wales announced late last year that he was developing the Search Wikia offering. "The basic concept of the search project is that I want to create a completely transparent, open-source, freely licensed search engine," he said. The project will have a couple of aspects. One will be related to work Miller is already doing on a standard protocol that search engines or organizations with search projects could use to collaborate and exchange data, Wales said. The idea is similar to Jabber, which was developed in 1998 and has tens of millions of users, according to the Jabber Software Foundation. While search engines typically don't work with each other that way today, they might want to, Wales said. For instance, if one search engine specialized in a certain type of search, it could partner with others in order to offer a broader service, he said. Such collaboration doesn't have to be free. A standard for sharing data could spur a "whole economy of search players collaborating and sharing revenue," he said. Search Wikia also aims to offer an open search platform that anyone online can look at and contribute to. Currently, most search engines keep their algorithms proprietary and continually tweak their algorithms, he said. "Those are things that I think should be done openly," he said. Just as Wales' Wikipedia allows anyone on the Web to contribute to an online encyclopedia, Search Wikia will let anyone contribute to the search process. "So we'll have a community of people giving truly editorial feedback, where they can make a judgment that this group of search results seems wrong or add weight to this or that site depending on what they're seeing," he said. Even as he embarks on this new community project, Wales admits that by their very nature, community-driven sites face challenges. "Take a look at Wikipedia for an analogy. There are amazing strengths to Wikipedia, but clearly some weaknesses, too," he said. Wikipedia is a popular online source of information but has faced some unique situations in which people posted inaccurate information on the site or companies tried to influence the information posted there. He's assuming that Search Wikia will face similar types of challenges as Wikipedia, so he will try to build flexibility into the system in order to handle them. Wales expects to have an "extremely alpha" version of Search Wikia available by the end of the year, mainly for developers to contribute to. "So we're quite a ways until we have a consumer search project," he said.

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