Quality and Safety

Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, DrChrono, Epic, Greenway Health, Meditech and NextGen offer an up-to-the-minute look at how they’re enabling complex immunization recordkeeping for their health system customers.

Healthvana CEO Ramin Bastani describes how his company is working with labs, providers and public health organizations to deliver test results with security, efficiency and empathy.

The global consortium for eHealth interoperability and the digital health indicators are just two success stories that HIMSS has introduced in 2020 with the aim of improving healthcare, says HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.

Discovered by CyberMDX, the flaw, MDhex-Ray, could allow remote exploits that would compromise connected radiology devices – enabling access to and potential manipulation of protected health data.

From the "cold chain" to clinicians' devices at the point of care, the roll-out of a COVID-19 vaccine presents bad actors with a wide array of vulnerable targets.

The COVID-19 telehealth boom has expanded health systems' perimeters – inside and outside the network – and in the process it's made them more vulnerable to breaches.

At ChristianaCare, "we've embedded information security deeply into our strategy and governance," said CEO Janice Nevin. "It's not just an IT issue, it's a patient safety issue, and it's everyone's responsibility."

Panelists at the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum this week said cybercriminals will likely use tried-and-true techniques, such as phishing emails themed around COVID-19 vaccines or President-elect Biden, to keep exploiting novel vulnerabilities.

The latest security industry forecast from Experian warns that bad actors will continue to take advantage of the COVID-19 crisis next year.

OASIS CEO Thamer Shaker says all stakeholders in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are working toward a roadmap to ensure alignment with government policy to drive digital innovation in healthcare.