Privacy & Security
03:17 pm
June 06, 2018
The new technology enables hospitals to manage disparate data from various electronic health records.
Leo Scanlon at a hearing examining the role of HHS in healthcare cybersecurity, on June 8, 2017. Credit: Energy & Commerce Committee
11:45 am
June 06, 2018
House and Senate committees criticize department with essentially the same case sidelined Deputy CISO Leo Scanlon made in March.
03:59 pm
June 05, 2018
The breach was contained to hashed passwords and usernames, but the DNA testing service site didn’t waste time notifying its users of the security incident.
12:35 pm
June 05, 2018
The technology's badge-tap and single-sign-on process help avoid the slowdowns associated with "fat-finger typing," nurse says.
Holland Eye Surgery & Laser Center in Holland, Michigan. Credit: hollandeye.com
01:56 pm
June 04, 2018
A hacker told Holland Eye Surgery and Laser Center in March that they had accessed a patient list, but an investigation revealed that another access occurred back in 2016.
Credit: AWS Reinvent
02:00 pm
June 01, 2018
The cloud-based managed graph database service allows health systems and life sciences companies to more easily manage connected datasets for application development.
01:35 pm
June 01, 2018
HIMSS’ latest cybersecurity report highlights the continued Meltdown and Spectre threats that first appeared in early 2018, while outlining how hackers can easily exploit healthcare’s legacy systems.
Allyson Vicars is an associate director with The Advisory Board’s Health Care IT Advisor research program and will be speaking at the Healthcare Security Forum on June 11.
08:31 am
June 01, 2018
The Advisory Board’s Allyson Vicars says health orgs need to lean on governance and engage the executive leaders to tackle cybersecurity issues.
12:54 pm
May 29, 2018
A hacker hit some email accounts of Aultman Health Foundation with a phishing attack in February, but officials didn’t discover the breach until March 28.
02:37 pm
May 25, 2018
The European regulation is much more stringent than HIPAA, and those health systems that handle EU patient data, even in the U.S., must adjust their privacy measures to comply.
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John Halamka, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess CIO speaking at HL7’s DevDays in Boston on Tuesday. Credit: Twitter
