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Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki is Managing Editor of Healthcare IT News. Bill has 36 years of experience in journalism, with more than 25 years experience in healthcare IT.

Privacy & Security
By Bill Siwicki | 11:43 am | June 08, 2017
While previous security training was “death by PowerPoint,” new 10-minute training modules have vastly improved employee engagement, system says.
Privacy & Security
By Bill Siwicki | 02:40 pm | June 06, 2017
Security audits can also help to determine the value of legacy systems and calculate the risk of keeping them against the cost of replacement.
Connected Health
By Bill Siwicki | 12:20 pm | June 05, 2017
Healthcare is on the cusp of faster innovation cycles that will improve care delivery.
Privacy & Security
By Bill Siwicki | 11:52 am | June 05, 2017
Hospitals must educate developers to get the kind of cybersecurity measure that healthcare needs, particularly when it comes to apps that bolt-on to EHRs.
Mobile Health IT
By Bill Siwicki | 02:48 pm | June 02, 2017
Some industry observers say the technology is poised for greatness while others insist it has a long way to go.
Privacy & Security
By Bill Siwicki | 03:06 pm | June 01, 2017
Complacency is not an option where malicious individuals can take advantage of application and infrastructure vulnerabilities to access protected health info.
Compliance
By Bill Siwicki | 09:57 pm | May 31, 2017
Misplaced records, medication module errors, flawed lab results tracking and security issues should have been taken more seriously, Brendan Delaney says. 
Privacy & Security
By Bill Siwicki | 11:58 am | May 31, 2017
An alarming percentage of organizations don’t encrypt sensitive data in public cloud databases and too many have resources exposed to the internet.
Privacy & Security
By Bill Siwicki | 09:50 am | May 30, 2017
Some security leaders are increasing their response effectiveness through automating security tasks, the survey finds.
Patient Engagement
By Bill Siwicki | 01:20 pm | May 26, 2017
A post-WannaCry survey shows that U.S. consumers are not very forgiving when it comes to organizations not able to protect their medical information.