The USA’s
Government Accountability Office (GAO), equivalent to the National Audit
Office in the UK, recently reported “significant” weaknesses in the
information-security arrangements of the Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS), the healthcare insurer and provider to millions of the
USA’s poor.
In its report, the GAO says that a key reason is that the Department
had not yet fully implemented an organisation-wide information-security
programme. As a result, the DHHS’s medical and financial information
systems were “vulnerable to unauthorised access, use, modification and
destruction that could disrupt the Department’s operations”.
Full story in bjhc&im May 2006 (259 words)
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