Privacy & Security

AHIMA, CHIME, others lobby Capitol Hill for unique patient ID

By Mike Miliard 11:04 am July 23, 2019

The groups urge the Senate to follow the House's lead and finally lift the ban on federal funding for a nationwide unique patient identifier, making the case that it can help avoid serious safety risks due to matching errors.

Health system boards don't do enough IT oversight, report shows

By Nathan Eddy 11:09 am July 22, 2019

And that's because too many board members don't have the right level of IT and security expertise, a new Black Book study suggests.

Continuing use of technology susceptible to cyber-attack in NHS, says Labour MP

UK MP faults continuing use of technology susceptible to cyber-attack in NHS

By Cara Dartnell-Steinberg 11:06 am July 17, 2019

Responding to an answer in parliament by a junior health minister, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Jo Platt warned the government of the dangers of the 2,300 NHS computers thatstill run on Windows XP.

GE Healthcare insists anaesthesia machines used by NHS pose ‘no direct patient risk’

By Tammy Lovell 03:31 am July 15, 2019

GE Healthcare says its anaesthetic machines pose no patient risk, after concerns that the devices could be tampered with by hackers.

Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center (photo: David Bjorgen, Wikimedia)

Novant Health migrates its Epic EHR system to the cloud

By Mike Miliard 03:46 pm July 12, 2019

Virtustream Healthcare Cloud helped the North Carolina-based health system "future-proof" its IT system by moving mission-critical data to its hosting service.

Hospitals are paying for not vetting their vendors

By Benjamin Harris 12:36 pm July 11, 2019

More than half of hospitals say they've had one or more data breaches caused by third-party vendors in the past two years, with an average cost of $2.9 million per incident – but too many are still failing to do adequate risk assessments.

Securonix achieves HITRUST certification for healthcare security monitoring

By Bill Siwicki 11:24 am July 11, 2019

The vendor’s event management technology is designed for monitoring threats to healthcare organizations and comes with built-in connectors for major healthcare applications such as Epic and Cerner.

Security concerns, budget restrictions hamper move to cloud

By Nathan Eddy 11:46 am July 10, 2019

Even as the number of organizations ready to adopt a cloud-based approach is rising, nearly a fifth of healthcare orgs surveyed said they'd consider moving their data from the cloud back on premises.

NTT finalizes WhiteHat Security acquisition

By Mike Miliard 01:43 pm July 09, 2019

WhiteHat's application security and DevSecOps expertise will help NTT widen the protections it can offer healthcare and other clients working on enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives, the company says.