Government & Policy

The group published the guidance to help hospitals define what job roles cybersecurity teams require and, ultimately, to help them find top talent.

Don’t let that audit turn into a deeper investigation, Deven McGraw said at the Allscripts user conference in Chicago.

The Texas physician is the president’s choice for assistant secretary of health but Senate Democrats say Giroir’s testimony left them skeptical that he would support women’s health programs.

Inviting hackers to attack your network and then paying them for discovering weaknesses seems dangerous. But the U.S. Department of Defense is succeeding with the practice and some infosec firms are specializing in it.

Researchers will use the funding to new approaches to enable EHRs to more accurately bring patient information together to ensure clinicians are looking at the right information for a specific individual.

The veteran executive proposes a multi-pronged approach to ending the tyranny of wasted time and effort created by today’s technologies.

ICS-CERT researchers found four vulnerabilities in Siemens’ molecular imaging products that can be publicly exploited and allow a hacker to remotely access and compromise the devices.

The EHR vendor said the issue was related to how it could translate a patient’s EHR information in a way that is easy to understand.

Appointees will advise National Coordinator for Health IT on policies, standards, specifications.

The President and the Veterans Affairs secretary also announced a new telehealth app and said they are rolling out another nationwide.