Privacy & Security
Stage 3 of meaningful use is shaping up to be the most challenging and detailed level yet for healthcare providers. Among the elements that warrant attention are quality reporting, clinical decision support and security risk analysis.
An appellate court has cleared Advocate Medical Group of wrongdoing in a class action lawsuit alleging the organization failed to protect patient data following a massive HIPAA data breach.
CA Technologies, the systems software developer, announced Monday that it has completed its acquisition of Xceedium, a maker of privileged identity management tools.
Security vendor says selling the storage unit will enable it to renew focus on core technologies for healthcare and other industries.
Even if they weren't originally looking for protected health information, we learned from the Sony attack that cybercriminals still might steal medical records while they're inside the network.
Texas Health Resources has appointed Joey Sudomir as senior vice president, innovative technology solutions and chief information officer.
The new conference will focus on cyber-security, population health and mhealth.
2015 thus far has been the year of hackers targeting the healthcare industry. And they don't appear to be slowing down. Just last week, another business associate notified individuals that their protected health information was stolen following yet another "sophisticated cyberattack."
A pair of IT security researchers have successfully designed a worm that will break into a Mac's operating system, widely considered more impenetrable than its PC counterpart. And there are huge implications for the healthcare industry.
Niall Brennan, Chief Data Officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, talks about CMS' initiatives in predictive modelling to identify fraud, real time delivery system monitoring and increasing transparency in healthcare data.