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• Deploy healthcare cybersecurity tools to protect vital data

  Health IT buyers need security tools to protect against potentially devastating cyberattacks. Compare the leading products and learn about what they each can offer. Continue Reading

• Health IT security should consider these leading vendors

  Explore these leading products in the cybersecurity market to best protect healthcare systems and patient data from falling victim to cyberattacks. Continue Reading

• The 8 key ways to assess healthcare data security tools

  Find the most effective cybersecurity tools to protect healthcare systems and data by looking at these eight key features and what major vendors offer for these features. Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity for healthcare more critical than ever before

  Cyberattacks can be devastating for healthcare organizations. Traditional security tools alone no longer cut it, so health companies must turn to newer tools for protection. Continue Reading

• Healthcare cybersecurity combats growing slew of threats

  Cybercriminals target healthcare groups to steal and hold sensitive information hostage. Learn how to spot the most insidious and common methods of attack. Continue Reading

• 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

• 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

• Preventing ransomware: Healthcare CIO discusses top technologies

  Security is a top concern in health IT, especially given that attacks have become more sophisticated and frequent. A CIO talks about key technologies for preventing ransomware.Continue Reading

• Blockchain healthcare promise, problems aired at government conference

  Blockchain distributed ledger technology bears big potential and poses challenges for health IT applications; supporters and skeptics debated blockchain at a government workshop.Continue Reading

• New Brother printers offer HIPAA compliance for healthcare

  While much of healthcare has gone digital, some hospitals and many smaller providers still use paper records; Brother print-fax-store machines are HIPAA-compliant for print.Continue Reading

• Q&A: The main reason healthcare organizations violate HIPAA

  The second round of HIPAA audits have commenced, and most likely some healthcare organizations will be found to violate HIPAA. A health IT expert discusses common mistakes.Continue Reading

• As hospital ransomware threats rise, cloud is one, but not only, option

  Ransomware attacks on hospitals garner media attention and create headaches for health IT pros. The cloud offers potential answers, but it may not be better than on-premises defenses.Continue Reading

• Vendors selling into health IT market talk tech to HIT Squad

  A recent health IT conference was a forum for health IT and cybersecurity vendors to reach healthcare organizations and potential customers; the HIT Squad talks with the vendors.Continue Reading

• With healthcare disaster recovery systems, storage options evolve

  As cyberattacks continue to hit health data networks with alarming frequency, providers are increasingly turning to hybrid cloud and other forms of healthcare disaster recovery.Continue Reading

• Infographic: Healthcare purchasing strategy focuses on security tech

  TechTarget's health IT spending intentions survey shows security is a top healthcare purchasing strategy. This infographic details top investment areas.Continue Reading

• Healthcare information security tops purchasing survey

  In a TechTarget survey, health IT buyers said they are looking at security compliance ahead of analytics and EHR systems. Meanwhile, mobility is up as well.Continue Reading

• Data security in healthcare tops health IT buying intentions

  Healthcare data security and HIPAA compliance emerged as the top areas in a TechTarget survey of 2016 health IT buying intentions. Meanwhile, cloud and mobility are growing quickly.Continue Reading

• Threat intelligence report: One in five doctors’ mobile device may be at high risk

  As important a role as mobile plays in healthcare, it may also pose an equally serious threat, according to a report by Skycure, a mobile threat defense company based in Palo Alto, Calif. In fact, ...Continue Reading

• HIPAA audit program serious business, expert says

  As OCR HIPAA audits get underway, healthcare law expert David Harlow says healthcare organizations should prepare, and that patient access to data will be part of audits.Continue Reading

• Hospital CTO finds virtualization and security in Citrix

  In a video shot at HIMSS 2016, the CTO of Children's Hospital Los Angeles and a Citrix healthcare executive talk about the benefits of virtualization and security in health IT.Continue Reading

• HIPAA compliance audits coming, cybersecurity expert says at HIMSS 2016

  In a podcast from HIMSS, cybersecurity expert Mac McMillan discusses a new health data security simulation system, long-delayed HIPAA audits and the safety of cloud technology.Continue Reading

• Probst on cybersecurity in healthcare: 'We have to work together'

  As it should be, cybersecurity is on many healthcare CIOs' minds. Marc Probst, CIO at Intermountain Healthcare, shares some advice.Continue Reading

• For secure messaging, healthcare shouldn't rely on texting

  Texting is convenient and fun, but it is not the appropriate way for physicians to communicate securely with patients about health matters, such as lab test results.Continue Reading

• Ask the expert: Encryption is key for a HIPAA covered entity

  David Reis, CISO at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, discusses important steps a healthcare organization, as a HIPAA covered entity, should take to remain compliant.Continue Reading

• Wanted: Super sleuths to find healthcare data security risks

  To secure patient data in a world on the go, learn from breaches others have experienced, experts say, and look at how analytics can boost your security strategy.Continue Reading

• HIT Squad: Wearable health technology, HIPAA, Epic-Cerner

  In this podcast, SearchHealthIT's HIT Squad talks about the FDA oversight of wearable health technology and the Epic-Cerner battle.Continue Reading

• Telemedicine security has the attention of healthcare providers

  Healthcare organizations willing to take on remote monitoring projects should allow their IT teams time to craft a telemedicine security plan.Continue Reading

• When it comes to healthcare big data the risk is worth it

  CIO Joel Vengco discusses how healthcare big data can improve patient care and create more vulnerabilities. In the end, he thinks it's worth it.Continue Reading

• CISO feels strain to balance open data with mobile health security

  In this podcast, Dan Bowden, CISO at University of Utah Healthcare, says mobile health security is a top concern and risk assessment is paramount.Continue Reading

• With big data, healthcare won't cut it using old-school style

  To corral the challenges of looming big data, healthcare organizations -- and physicians -- should bring data analysis tools into their repertoire.Continue Reading

• Analysis of mobile health apps, BYOD security

  SearchHealthIT reporters Shaun Sutner and Kristen Lee talk about the security of mobile health apps, as well as wearable technology and telemedicine.Continue Reading

• Health data security and interoperability key for CIOs

  Healthcare CIOs at the CHIME forum at HIMSS 2015 say health data security, interoperability, and analytics and wellness data are atop their agendas.Continue Reading

• FBI joins cybersecurity discussion at HIMSS 2015

  Cybersecurity guru Mac McMillan, in a HIMSS 2015 podcast, says state-sponsored and criminal threats against health data sometimes overlap.Continue Reading

• Expert warns OCR HIPAA audits ahead

  In this podcast, first of a two-part series, CynergisTek health data privacy expert David Holtzman says the 2015 round of HIPAA audits are coming soon.Continue Reading

• Security the focal point of buying decision survey

  Security, health data analytics, cloud and compliance are top of mind for those in charge of health IT buying decisions, a TechTarget survey finds.Continue Reading

• Next for Direct: Apps to enable health data exchange

  Getting patients involved in Direct(ing) exchange of health data is coming in 2015, when developers finish their applications.Continue Reading

• Q&A: DirectTrust CEO David Kibbe, M.D., on future of Direct exchange

  One of Direct exchange's leading advocates discusses its future prospects for the HIE protocol, and how it supports meaningful use compliance.Continue Reading

• Ransomware program fuels health data extortionists

  A harmful new hacker tool, ransomware, haunts healthcare CIOs. Learn what providers need to do to shore up health data security and HIPAA compliance.Continue Reading

• ONC's Joy Pritts on the privacy risks of mobile health apps

  The ONC's outgoing Chief Privacy Officer Joy Pritts granted us an exit interview, and pulled no punches discussing very real health data security risks everywhere, including mobile health apps.Continue Reading

• How to monitor physician-patient communication and boost engagement

  Find out how providers are fighting the security risks imposed by today's electronic methods of communication.Continue Reading

• Yesterday's technology finds its place in mobile healthcare heyday

  While federal wonks are busy arguing about healthcare IT policy, nurses and physicians are tired of waiting for legislation to catch up with technology. In this issue of Pulse, we take a hard look at mobile technology in healthcare that can...Continue Reading

• Security gets interactive with HIPAA compliance assessment app

  The release of a security risk assessment tool to assist providers with HIPAA compliance was announced by the Department of Health and Human Services.Continue Reading

• Ponemon survey: Healthcare data breaches decrease despite BYOD risks

  Annual survey finds new worries among providers for healthcare data breaches -- but some indicators show they're getting a handle on containing risks.Continue Reading

• India-based firm's geofencing protects clinical data storage

  Engaging third-party cloud providers is a leap for some providers. Others entrust an Indian IT outsourcing firm with clinical data geofencing.Continue Reading

• Health IT infrastructure outsourcing puts rural providers on the grid

  Health IT infrastructure cloud providers enable backup, disaster business continuity and radiology image exchange for remote providers.Continue Reading

• Health data security improves despite IT lagging behind other sectors

  A security software vendor survey shows providers are taking health data security very seriously; CEO says more employee education needed.Continue Reading

• Small providers use cloud EHR, large groups warming up to outsourcing

  A few years ago, entrusting health IT to cloud services seemed unthinkable to providers. This series shows inroads to outsourcing firms have made.Continue Reading

• Hospital's secure text messaging saves time, fosters HIPAA compliance

  A secure text messaging system builds HIPAA compliance and improves workflows. Here's how to evaluate vendors and make a purchasing decision.Continue Reading

• Group to combat medical identity theft with tech, consumer awareness

  A public-private group has formed to stop the sale of stolen medical information. Its first task: Involve payers, providers, vendors and consumers.Continue Reading

• Vendor selection, operating system ugrades part of encryption strategy

  Hospitals must pre-screen their vendors to determine whether they meet HIPAA's encryption requirements.Continue Reading

• Covered entities should think hard about business associate agreements

  Business associate agreements might seem straightforward, but regulatory ambiguity and vendor resistance make them anything but.Continue Reading

• Providers must consider security of cloud analytics systems

  Cloud analytics systems provide the scalability and low cost providers need, but providers must be aware of their vendor's security offerings.Continue Reading

• HIPAA compliance takes patient, employee and vendor follow up

  Making HIPAA compliance a priority, not a barrier in health care involves policies that educate patients, providers, and vendors, at AHIMA 2012.Continue Reading

• New iPad EHR app emphasizes mobility while acknowledging device's limitations

  ADP AdvancedMD's new iPad application won't solve the problems that come from typing on the device's on-screen keyboard. Vendor: That's the point.Continue Reading

• Virtualization vendors working with iPad see opportunity, challenges

  Virtualization vendors see a huge opportunity for bringing the iPad to health care -- but face challenges in dealing with Apple's lock-down mentality.Continue Reading

• When negotiating health IT contracts, try to get extra warranties

  Don't just skim the small-print legalese in your health IT contracts: Negotiate for more warranties and dig deep into your vendor's financial background.Continue Reading

• Ten tips for improving medical device security

  Don't let medical device security and critical patient data be compromised by an open network or a forgotten patch. Learn how to work with vendors to maintain and secure devices.Continue Reading

• HITECH Act security provisions catching health care providers unaware

  The HITECH Act’s new data security and privacy mandates, which go into effect this month, are leaving many health care providers and vendors in danger of being noncompliant with HIPAA.Continue Reading

• Verizon unveils health data security management, consulting programs

  Health data security management tools from Verizon Business aim to give providers a secure move to EHR, upping productivity and protecting information.Continue Reading