Compliance & Legal

The settlement is related to the 2011 theft of a USB drive that contained the ePHI of 2,209 members from the life insurance company's IT department.

Four experts discuss the lessons the healthcare industry learned the hard way this past year – and the need for much stronger security measures in 2017.

Everything attendees need to know about cybersecurity events at the 2017 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, which includes a cybersecurity command center, educational sessions and an all-day forum.

Latest hospital injury fines include crackdown on antibiotic resistant germs.

Fisher discusses his pet peeves, what he’s hoping to see at HIMSS, and reveals his health IT hero. That last one might surprise you. 

Healthcare IT News delves deep into infrastructure-as-a-service offerings from Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft, CDW, ClearData, Verizon and VMware.

Experts will convene at the HIMSS and Healthcare IT News event to discuss best practices for cybersecurity, fending off attackers, sharing threat intelligence, learning from the dark web, grappling with budget realities and more. 

John Halamka, MD, served the Bush administration for four years and the Obama administration for six. Change in Washington happens incrementally, he says: There is always an evolution, not a revolution, regardless of speechmaking hyperbole.

As outlined in HHS Office of Inspector General's 2017 work plan, the agency will also review the FDA's plan to address cybersecurity issues of medical devices.

The president-elect has already laid out a plan that many feel will cause massive disruption to the industry.