Healthcare futurist Jeff Bauer explains why he believes the federal electronic health record incentive program has a slim chance of success.

More storage capacity, less cost - this is the promise of cloud computing for healthcare organizations.

An audio review of 2011 forecasts posted on HealthcareInfoSecurity.com in December.

Attorney Kathy Roe of The Health Law Consultancy sizes up the healthcare information privacy and security regulatory outlook for 2011.

Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee Labs threat research vice president, discusses the company's annual threat predictions, saying: "We are seeing an escalating threat landscape in 2011."

"The environment that started by supporting whistleblowers ... is essentially morphing into 'Gee, we as an organization need to be completely transparent, whether we want to or not,'" says Cal Slemp, managing director of Protiviti.

Thwarting the insider threat entails more than knowing an individual with access to a computer, but to recognize the synergy between the individual, organization, technology and environment, I3P Research Director Shari Lawrence Pfleeger says.

2011 will be the year of more -- more sophisticated malware, more WikiLeaks-style breaches and more regulatory compliance headaches.