Privacy & Security

In this edition of "Workplace Re-Entry in the Healthcare Industry," healthcare attorney Aaron Maguregui discusses HIPAA and patient privacy in regard to telehealth and his projections for the post-COVID-19 world.

The 2019 incident, which disabled Springhill Medical Center's EHR and patient monitors for days, obscured access to critical information that could have allowed for a lifesaving C-section, the baby's mother says.

The health system-led data platform will broaden the reach of its pop health analytics projects with Azure-based artificial intelligence and security tools.

Data collaboration is key to healthcare's future, but maintaining confidentiality is critical, says Intel's Chris Gough, who explains how the Intel SGX platform's memory encryption enables new modalities of data collaboration and security.

A CISO talks with Healthcare IT News about boards' changing views of security, how hospitals are adapting to ransomware strikes and how infosec professionals' priorities are shifting along with the threat landscape.

She comes to OCR from New York State's Department of Health, where she coordinated COVID-19 response and led social programs. Before that, she worked in the Obama administration on cybersecurity at DHS.

With more and more organizations requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination, attention has to be paid to factors that could hinder wider uptake: access to technology, privacy concerns, social determinants of health and more.

The complaint follows a phishing incident that may have allowed bad actors access to patient information for months.

How an innovative balance of the clinical with the commercial can be the route to delivering quality care.

This week's top stories include projections that hospitals could lose $54 billion in net income, Apple working to help detect depression and early-stage cognitive decline, and a link found between ransomware and increased mortality rate.