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Electronic health records security compliance

• 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

• Providers advance in battle against data breaches in healthcare

  The new year could be one of healthcare cybersecurity catchup, after 2015 logged huge health data breaches and 2016 saw devastating ransomware attacks on providers.Continue Reading

• For CIOs, hospital cyberattacks present a likely threat

  Cybercriminals have a greater likelihood of hitting hospitals than the community assaults envisioned after the 9/11 attacks. But technology is better poised to defend against them.Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity technologies seen as remedy for healthcare data attacks

  Banner Health in Arizona, 21st Century Oncology in Florida, Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic in Georgia -- the list of healthcare cyberattack victims last year seems endless. In those three facilities alone, more than 6 million patients were ...Continue Reading

• Why healthcare ransomware attacks are a growing threat to health IT

  There are several factors that leave hospitals vulnerable to ransomware attacks, including the use of legacy systems and the fear of financial penalties due to a data breach.Continue Reading