28-Mar-12 | 2:38
Health IT security is vital to protecting health information. Learn more about health IT security research in SHARPS at http://www.SHARPS.org .
Across a variety of settings, the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects on Security, or SHARPS, are creating mechanisms to protect patients and their information, including better security in pacemakers and insulin pumps, stronger protections for mobile health devices and software containing patient data, and auditing services to allow providers to track access to patient data.