Privacy & Security

Recent research has shown more hospitals raising their baseline security posture, according to Lee Kim, HIMSS director of privacy and security.

Trojans, riskware, spyware and worms all plague healthcare, which leads all industries in number of data breaches.

A nurse gets into a car accident and requires surgery. After surgery, the nurse is prescribed painkillers and becomes addicted. Because she works in a hospital, the nurse has access to drugs and continues to pilfer them to feed her addiction for many months.

A new security report finds the average institution leaves terabytes of sensitive information exposed to unauthorized parties.

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

California is leading the way with new state privacy regulations designed to better protect consumers and their data, but CynergisTek EVP Angela Rivera asks: How prepared are organizations?

The technology can be used to foster interoperability but there are some key questions that need to be answered first, including ones about privacy and security, says Pew's HIT project director Ben Moscovitch.

A new study from vendor Vectra monitored network traffic for six months to find the most prevalent methods attackers use to gain control and access protected information.

In healthcare, fast access to critical patient data can mean the difference between life and death.