Privacy & Security

The Southern Ohio Medical Center still faced complications nearly a week after an unauthorized third party gained access to its servers.

Consensus Clarity uses NLP to transform a fax into digital components to be added to an EHR, according to John Nebergall, Consensus Cloud Solutions' chief operating officer.

Jacki Monson, who is also chief technology risk officer and chief privacy officer at Sutter, previews her HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum virtual session – where she'll discuss stakeholder alignment and "privacy and security by design."

Employees hired through the system will join what the agency is calling the Cybersecurity Service, "the nation's pre-eminent federal cybersecurity team."

More than 40 million patient records have been compromised this past year by incidents reported to the federal government in 2021.

Eight C-suite execs offer insights on where they see investments going in the next five years in AI, interoperability, telehealth, cybersecurity, EHRs and emerging technology.

H-ISAC Chief Security Officer Errol Weiss warns that individuals working on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments are of "high interest" to adversaries. He'll discuss more at the upcoming HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum.  

This week's top stories include the Justice Department cracking down on international ransomware attacks and Medicare Part D plan consolidation fueling a 23% drop in offerings.

The thousands of potentially affected healthcare devices include anesthesia machines and patient monitors, according to researchers.

A new SecureAge study found that 40% of employers said their current company had dealt with a cyberattack in the past – yet many faced hurdles to implementing defense measures.