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By Jessica Davis | 02:18 pm | June 02, 2017
While Check Point’s report didn’t break down the infected countries by industry, healthcare security leaders should add this newest outbreak to their threat intelligence radar and monitor for any developments.
By Bill Siwicki | 03:06 pm | June 01, 2017
Complacency is not an option where malicious individuals can take advantage of application and infrastructure vulnerabilities to access protected health info.
By Healthcare IT News | 04:17 pm | May 31, 2017
Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting speaker proposals for the Boston Healthcare Security Forum, Sept. 11-13.
By Jessica Davis | 03:19 pm | May 31, 2017
The Texas health system officials say patient safety wasn’t affected, but patients contacted Austin’s KXAN with their concerns.
By Jessica Davis | 12:54 pm | May 31, 2017
The embattled biotech mogul will join Sutter Health informaticist Steven Lane, MD and Norton Healthcare CIO Steve Ready on the HHS task force established by the 21st Century Cures Act.
By Bill Siwicki | 11:58 am | May 31, 2017
An alarming percentage of organizations don’t encrypt sensitive data in public cloud databases and too many have resources exposed to the internet.
By Tom Sullivan | 02:52 pm | May 30, 2017
New products and services will incorporate predictive and prescriptive analytics and machine learning to augment infosec employees and resources, Gartner finds.
By Jessica Davis | 01:41 pm | May 30, 2017
A security flaw in the Medicaid insurer’s patient portal could have allowed anyone to access patient medical claims data with a simple change to the URL.
By Jessica Davis | 12:15 pm | May 30, 2017
Lack of encryption and authentication, simple bugs in the code and poor design can put patient lives at risk.
By Tom Sullivan | 11:34 am | May 30, 2017
Tech-savvy hospitals like Mayo, Kaiser and Christiana are always testing, recognizing cybersecurity threats could get scarier, and aiming to change mindsets to focus on infosec as a patient safety issue.