As the “e-health” arena continues to grow with electronic health records in the United States, a continuing demand for Universal Patient Identification Numbers to link electronic records around the globe and fast paced integration of hand held electronic devices in exam and operating rooms around the world, it isn’t hard to imagine that the costs of securing this information is growing rapidly as well. A recently published report estimates that by 2015, spending on security will reach 70 billion annually in the United States alone. Read further >

Halloween is all about scares and frights. We scare others, they scare us. When it comes to accessing electronic health records, though, some patients seem, well, scared or at least reluctant to sink their fangs into it. Read further >