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Kenneth Bradberry: Risk Analysis Is Never-Ending

Published: March 8, 2010, 9:39 p.m.

b'A risk analysis should not be an annual event, but rather an ongoing process that\'s revisited whenever a healthcare organization adds or changes any application. That\'s the advice of Kenneth Bradberry, vice president and chief technology officer at ACS, a consulting firm recently acquired by Xerox.\\n\\n

In an interview during the HIMSS Conference in Atlanta, Bradberry said:\\n\\n

Compliance with the HITECH Act should begin with "good security practices at every layer," including infrastructure and application delivery;
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Encryption is paramount, especially as clinicians gain access to electronic health records via mobile devices; and
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Larger organizations need a full-time chief information security officer.
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