Security

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently signed a bill that will postpone a deadline for physicians to issue only electronic prescriptions. Despite this, some hospitals are adopting IT that will enable secure e-prescribing of controlled substances.

(SPONSORED) Wade Baker is an information security leader with a passion for figuring things out and making things work at all layers.

(SPONSORED) Innovations in mobility, cloud and M2M technology have allowed healthcare organizations to transform how they do business and care for patients. But those same technologies can leave organizations and their valuable data vulnerable.

In what looks like it might be becoming a trend, another health plan has been targeted with a "sophisticated cyberattack," with hackers gaining access to the financial and medical information of 11 million members.

Imprivata will showcase solutions for safeguarding mobile and desktop messaging across the enterprise at HIMSS15.

Incorrect or missing data in electronic health records and other health IT systems is a huge patient safety hazard. Worse, according to ECRI, once inaccurate data gets into an EHR, "it's hard to get it out."

HIPAA does not get as technical as these common vulnerabilities, so there's a huge gray area that healthcare payers and providers must grasp.

There's a right way to manage third-party risks and vendor contracting, and there's the wrong way. And, too often, it's the latter. But it doesn't have to be. Here are some things your organization should keep in mind.

The number of patients affected by medical identity theft increased nearly 22 percent over the past year, according to a new report from the Medical Identity Fraud Alliance -- an increase of nearly half a million victims since 2013.

More and more across healthcare, provider organizations are adding a new C-suite role to their rosters -- or at least a new letter to the acronym of their chief security officer's title.