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Electronic health records security compliance

• Biometrics in healthcare further protects clinical data

  As modern security measures grow in sophistication, more healthcare organizations will evaluate biometrics to authenticate physician identities and verify prescriptions. Continue Reading

• Deception technology applied to pharma cybersecurity

  Thanks to automation and virtualization, deception technology may make inroads into healthcare. Here is one pharmaceutical company's approach to using the technology. Continue Reading

• Improving population health goal of data analytics research

  Data analytics may be just what the doctor ordered for a Nevada hospital. Findings from a study of genetic, medical, environmental and demographic data could improve population health. Continue Reading

• E-prescribing of controlled substances works for Hartford HealthCare

  After a new state law required healthcare providers to e-prescribe controlled drugs, Hartford HealthCare put in an EPCS system that uses biometric security technology. Continue Reading

• Hospital takes aim at patient health data security with AI tools

  AI and machine learning software is giving a four-hospital health system 100% visibility into its network and increased control over patient data security. Continue Reading

• Healthcare ransomware attacks threaten patient safety

  Worry about health IT cybersecurity has shifted from hacker-triggered health data breaches to ransomware and malware exploits that shut down hospitals and threaten patient safety.Continue Reading

• Healthcare breaches drop, but ransomware attacks rise

  Patient data breaches dropped in 2017, mainly due to fewer large-scale breaches, but ransomware strikes intensified and insiders kept hacking.Continue Reading

• Medical device cybersecurity critical for patient safety

  At RSNA 2017, an expert warns that insecurity of medical devices, including imaging hardware, threatens patient safety. A security director tells how Mayo Clinic protects devices.Continue Reading

• The four most interesting findings from the 2017 HIMSS cybersecurity survey

  From April through mid-May 2017, HIMSS North America commissioned a survey on the topic of healthcare cybersecurity. The HIMSS cybersecurity survey received feedback from 126 information security ...Continue Reading

• Anything but healthcare next-generation cybersecurity tools will not do

  Traditional cybersecurity tools just won't cut it in this landscape anymore, one healthcare CIO says. The name of the game is next-generation cybersecurity tools.Continue Reading

• CIO: The benefits of blockchain technology will come to healthcare

  According to one CIO, blockchain has a ways to go before reaching maturity, but, eventually, it will provide great value to healthcare.Continue Reading

• Achieve HIPAA compliance while keeping data secure

  It's not easy balancing patient data security steps with privacy requirements from HIPAA. For starters, getting through to busy clinicians may be a tough task for IT professionals.Continue Reading

• New cybersecurity technologies can help providers prevent attacks

  While providers have made progress on cybersecurity, malware and insider threats are still rampant; newer technologies like access control and behavioral analytics are effective.Continue Reading

• Data security in healthcare competes with HIPAA compliance

  It's not easy balancing patient data security steps with privacy requirements from HIPAA. For starters, getting through to busy clinicians may be a tough task for IT professionals.Continue Reading

• HIMSS 2017 health IT topics to include cybersecurity, value-based care

  In this podcast, the HIT Squad talks about hot health IT topics SearchHealthIT expects to cover at HIMSS 2017; they include health data cybersecurity and value-based healthcare.Continue Reading