Privacy & Security

The amended bill that would cut breach reporting time in half for healthcare providers, unanimously passed a State House committee meeting last week.

The federal agency aims to help IT decision makers sift through the hype to make "clear-eyed" choices about blockchain.

After all the cybersecurity threats and events in the last 12 months, infosec teams should focus on these priorities as they craft strategies into the future.

Officials found the Russian military “was almost certainly responsible” for the massive global attack, and serves as a reminder that nation-state actors can impact even small organizations that weren’t the intended target.

The new penetration testing approach, spread over an extended time frame, enables the company to layer on analytics for identifying systemic risk.

Chief executive Neil de Crescenzo said the vendor will be bringing artificial intelligence, cloud computing and revenue cycle tools to HIMSS18.  

The real challenge is digital convergence—the perfect storm of integration pressures that now exist on everything from network and security to patient engagement and data analytics.

Blockchain healthcare data company BurstIQ has landed a $5 million investment from Millennium Blockchain. The funding is the first of BurstIQ’s $20 million private placement offering initiated at the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which was held Jan. 23-26. The decision to launch at Davos was based largely on the global visibility and opportunity to engage with blockchain and crypto-currency industry leaders and bankers interested best-of-breed blockchain investment opportunities, according to Frank Ricotta, CEO of BurstIQ. “Blockchain is transformative technology that will fundamentally disrupt multiple industries,” Millennium Blockchain CEO Brandon Romanek said in a statement. BurstIQ is Millennium Blockchain’s first portfolio acquisition, he added. Millennium Blockchain is a specialty diversified holding company focused on next-generation blockchain use-cases and revenue-positive emerging growth companies.  Executives said this partnership positions BurstIQ as one of the only revenue-generating and profitable emerging growth companies in the blockchain industry.  Burst IQ expects to complete the offering by March 31. Twitter: @Bernie_HITN Email the writer: bernie.monegain@himssmedia.com

The Florida VA provider set-up its Wi-Fi network without coordinating with the VA’s IT office.

A more transparent formulary design enables pharma companies of all sizes to be listed on the exchange, giving consumers more choice and leading to lower out-of-pocket expense, the company says.