Privacy & Security

The weaknesses highlighted by the FDA in Urgent/11 demonstrate there are susceptibilities within software platforms that are both identifiable and resolvable.

As the COVID-19 crisis forces hospitals to get creative, a retired Air Force Colonel offers some perspective on IT preparedness gained from previous emergency medical deployments.

It's hard for me to believe, but I’ve been at Penn Medicine for 13 years.

Dr Saif Abed, director of cybersecurity advisory services at AbedGraham, says it's high time suppliers invested in people and processes.

Leaders know that the IT department alone cannot secure an organisation, and that the easiest path to breach the best technical defenses is through their people, writes Rod Piechowski, VP of thought advisory for HIMSS.

Medical devices must be managed from a security perspective, but also from an operational perspective. Using analytics to establish behavior baselines helps support risk assessments, find malfunctions and enhance staff productivity.

Putting an infosec program into place is a balancing act, requiring a very careful approach and significant involvement from a wide array of stakeholders, says Penn Medicine CISO Dan Costantino.

Dr Saif Abed, founding partner of health IT consultancy firm AbedGraham, looks at how interoperability could "break healthcare".

Dr Saif Abed, founding partner of health IT consultancy AbedGraham, looks at the new 10-year plan for the National Health Service in England.

Tom Leary highlights milestones made during the annual event and looks at this year’s NHITWeek points of engagement.