This week's top news: An in-depth analysis of a presidential council's report that calls for a universal exchange language for electronic health records.

This week's top news and views: Mobile and online P2P services offer banks and credit unions a competitive edge, and a new Aite report proves internal fraud is more damaging than most banks realize.

Mobile and online P2P services offer banks and credit unions a competitive edge, and a new Aite report proves internal fraud is more damaging than most banks realize.

This week's top news and views: IT employment ends 2010 near a two-year high; IT security jobs are on the rise in 2011; and giving non-IT executives the responsibility for IT risk.

The cost savings can be significant, but cloud computing also promises to help healthcare organizations manage risks and achieve business continuity goals.

Philip Andreae was there when EMV was born, and he plans to see the EMV evolution through, until it becomes a global standard embraced throughout the world.

Executives deal with risk all of the time, except that is, information technology risk. For many non-IT leaders in government and business, IT risk is outside their comfort zone. Oregon CISO Theresa Masse wants to change that.

A recently released presidential council report, while raising important issues, oversimplifies the challenges involved in securely exchanging health information, says Joyce Sensmeier, vice president for informatics at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

When it comes to sizing up the privacy agenda for 2011, the tone at the top of organizations is all about improving data security, says privacy expert and lawyer Lisa Sotto.