Privacy & Security

Hospitals must educate developers to get the kind of cybersecurity measure that healthcare needs, particularly when it comes to apps that bolt-on to EHRs.

A cybersecurity task force report released Friday revealed a laundry list of vulnerabilities including the lack of capable security workforce.

Healthcare security experts argue that hospitals must ensure high availability of medical devices and IT systems with practices that resemble preventing and treating disease. Because ransomware is a symptom rather than the problem. 

While Check Point’s report didn’t break down the infected countries by industry, healthcare security leaders should add this newest outbreak to their threat intelligence radar and monitor for any developments.

Complacency is not an option where malicious individuals can take advantage of application and infrastructure vulnerabilities to access protected health info.

Adnan Hamid, Assistant CIO at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, discusses the organization's areas of focus for health IT in 2017 including cybersecurity, disaster recovery, interoperability and more.

Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting speaker proposals for the Boston Healthcare Security Forum, Sept. 11-13.

The Texas health system officials say patient safety wasn’t affected, but patients contacted Austin’s KXAN with their concerns.

Cisco will build new applications for IBM’s platform that hospital security teams can use to better understand and respond to advanced threats.

The embattled biotech mogul will join Sutter Health informaticist Steven Lane, MD and Norton Healthcare CIO Steve Ready on the HHS task force established by the 21st Century Cures Act.