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Privacy & Security

By John Andrews | 09:10 am | August 18, 2015
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.
By Erin McCann | 12:01 pm | August 17, 2015
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.
By Mike Miliard | 11:27 am | August 17, 2015
CA Technologies, the systems software developer, announced Monday that it has completed its acquisition of Xceedium, a maker of privileged identity management tools.
By Tom Sullivan | 08:48 am | August 12, 2015
Security vendor says selling the storage unit will enable it to renew focus on core technologies for healthcare and other industries.
By Tom Sullivan | 11:58 am | August 07, 2015
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.
By Bernie Monegain | 08:54 am | August 07, 2015
Texas Health Resources has appointed Joey Sudomir as senior vice president, innovative technology solutions and chief information officer.
By Eric Wicklund | 12:00 pm | August 06, 2015
The new conference will focus on cyber-security, population health and mhealth.
By Erin McCann | 11:58 am | August 05, 2015
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."
By Erin McCann | 12:13 pm | August 04, 2015
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.
By Eric Bailey | 11:28 am | July 08, 2015
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.