Network Infrastructure

At the HIMSS22 Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Monday, ethical hacker Kevin Johnson offered some unique perspective on what the bad guys are really up to when they target health systems.

The goal was adding smart technology to enhance communication and overall safety. The hospital also equipped all patient rooms with an "i-bed," bedside tablet and electronic whiteboard.

The US firm’s software will be rolled out across 30 hospital trusts. 

Stuart Hanson, CEO of Avaneer Health, discusses healthcare's hesitancy to adopt blockchain, highlights some of its best potential use cases and predicts what might be next for distributed ledger technology in 2022 and beyond.

Fears that healthcare IT systems could be vulnerable to attack. 

The past year's numbers bring the Direct Secure Message totals to nearly 3 billion, with more than 254 million sent and received in the last quarter.

In an ever-changing landscape of cyberthreats, here are some ways CISOs can bring teams together and establish a culture of security.

HIMSS Analytics awarded the Saudi Arabian hospital the highest level of validation for inpatient digital maturity.

As risk levels increase, health systems have "significant challenges to overcome," according to the 13th annual report – including suboptimal security spending, vulnerable legacy tech and weak-link human factors.

While compliance-based frameworks are not without merit, it is important that they be viewed as minimum acceptable standards and not as end goals.