Privacy & Security
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.
Complacency is not an option where malicious individuals can take advantage of application and infrastructure vulnerabilities to access protected health info.
Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting speaker proposals for the Boston Healthcare Security Forum, Sept. 11-13.
The Texas health system officials say patient safety wasn’t affected, but patients contacted Austin’s KXAN with their concerns.
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.
An alarming percentage of organizations don’t encrypt sensitive data in public cloud databases and too many have resources exposed to the internet.
New products and services will incorporate predictive and prescriptive analytics and machine learning to augment infosec employees and resources, Gartner finds.
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.
Lack of encryption and authentication, simple bugs in the code and poor design can put patient lives at risk.
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.