Health Execs to Get IT Help

A look at the week of July 4 in advocacy for the IT channel: This week the nation's largest organization of physician executives announced that it is running a training course designed to better help hospital executives adapt to the rapid changes in healthcare IT. A new research study released this week indicates that the recent spike in cybersecurity breaches is a product of increased disclosure rather than an actual increase in such incidents. The president of the Internet Security Alliance told the House Homeland Security subcommittee that he believes President Obama's cybersecurity proposal creates counter-incentives against private sector improvements in cybersecurity.

Health Execs to Get IT Help - Nextgov.com reports that the American College of Physician Executives has started a program to help hospital medical executives to adapt to the changing world of health IT. The ACPE says its new health IT leadership certificate program is designed to help medical executives "more easily and effectively lead healthcare IT changes." The organization has training courses designed to help executives talk knowledgeably about IT issues and fundamentals, manage IT implementers, and plan and implement health IT systems and changes.

Apparent Wave Of Cyber Breaches Is An Illusion - According to Nextgov.com, a proliferation of hacktivists and frustration with cleanup costs are prompting agencies and companies to disclose breaches they would have kept under wraps in the past. While increased media coverage makes it seem as though cyber crooks are poking into databases more frequently the fact is that government and corporate networks have been under comparable levels of assault for years.

White House Cybersecurity Proposal Would Create Disincentives, Says Industry Group Head - Fierce Government IT reports that Larry Clinton, President of the Internet Security Alliance told a House Subcommittee that cybersecurity legislation proposed by the Obama administration would create counter-incentives against better private sector cybersecurity. The White House proposal would set up a framework of performance standards and measures against which private sector operators of critical infrastructure would be regularly audited, with the audit results-or high level summaries of them-disclosed to the public. But, the proposal runs counter to the way cybersecurity threats have recently evolved, Clinton told the House Homeland Security subcommittee on cybersecurity, infrastructure protection and security technologies.