Privacy & Security
Mobile Health IT
The policy outlined now mirrors the current position of the Joint Commission, which underwent its own series of flip-flops on the subject in 2016.
Analytics
The healthcare sector is improving its cybersecurity practices but as a whole, much more needs to be done.
Privacy & Security
While Longs Peak Family Practice was investigating a Nov. 5 ransomware attack, its infosec team discovered another hack into its system on Nov. 10.
Privacy & Security
The North Korean government’s malicious activity also made it into this month’s cybersecurity report from HIMSS.
Compliance
Cybersecurity has become an extremely complex field and chief information security officers need a specific body of knowledge – and a smart staff to handle the rest.
Revenue Cycle
Center for Connected Medicine survey finds 92 percent plan to increase spending to keep IT systems safe; report also tracked potential buyers' plans in 2018 for predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and more.
Privacy & Security
The state has been unable to determine whether breached information was seen by a third party, but officials said names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers may have been compromised.
Data Warehousing
Every user has access to applications and resources to do their job and segmentation keeps threats contained.
IT Infrastructure
Consider behavioral-based privilege, user monitoring and remember not all anti-virus software is protection enough.
Privacy & Security
All of the company’s public-facing URLs redirected users to another site that threatened to release patient data if MEDHOST didn’t pay an extortion fee.