Another day, another scheme to profit from the high prices commanded by healthcare data. This time, the industry is confronting a new wave of cybercrime in...
Tag - Cybersecurity
This week, the news broke that a data breach at the neurology department at Massachusetts General Hospital had exposed private health information on nearly...
Many years ago, when I first began researching the healthcare industry, I wrote about the Apple Newton. For those that don’t remember the Newton, it was a very...
HHS says Security and Compliance Require Actions, then Policies The common-sense, scalable, and actionable cybersecurity guidance recently released by the US...
The following is a guest post by Gus Malezis, President and CEO of Imprivata. The digitization of healthcare has allowed healthcare organizations to utilize...
Unease over cybersecurity, optimism for the future of telehealth, and worries about the entry of big tech companies (like Apple, Amazon and Google) are the top...
This week, a team of McAfee researchers released a paper outlining a terrifying exploit. The paper describes, in great technical detail, how a malicious...
A hospital in West Des Moines, Iowa has entered its third month of public disclosure after experiencing a data breach which could impact 1.4 million patients...
Not long ago, 22 healthcare CIOs had a sit-down to discuss their CEOs’ top IT-related priorities. At the meeting, which took place during the 2018 Scottsdale...
A recently-published survey suggests that while most health IT security leaders feel confident they can handle external attacks, they worry about insider...
