Privacy & Security

Chris Bowen, chief privacy and security officer at ClearDATA, says platforms need to enable their customers to innovate by giving them peace of mind about their security.

Healthcare providers are investing more in cybersecurity, but an increase in threat sophistication and new bad actors mean the industry is still not ready for the next big global cyberattack.

Allyson Vicars,  associate director of health IT research at The Advisory Board, says the best course for executives is to keep it simple by bringing forth viable and easy understood plans that hospital staff can get behind.

Most recently, the software giant has delved into artificial intelligence and also has been exploring how best to move healthcare data to the cloud and keep it secure.

Lee Kim, director of privacy and security at HIMSS, says the industry has a long way to go to be able to fend off next WannaCry or Petya. But the good news is collaboration is happening across healthcare to better get prepared.

Michael Gold, vice president of analytics and technology at the Midwest Health Collaborative, says it starts with educating users to become healthcare's front line of defense.

Kirk Lippold, Commander U.S. Navy (Ret.), explains why critical thinking and detailed planning from the top is essential to protecting systems from breaches and hacks.

Jane Harper, director of privacy and security risk management at the Henry Ford Health System, shares her advice for establishing sound practices for managing third-party relationships.

The retail giant is looking to protect a method for obtaining EHR data via the distributed ledger technology.

The healthcare billing claims vendor discovered a hacker accessed an employee workstation on March 22.