Privacy & Security

Aarti Borkar, vice president of IBM Security, offers expert advice on how healthcare provider organizations can best protect systems and data in this increasingly connected ecosystem.

The framework calls on the federal government to partner with other public health authorities and the private sector to ensure patient safety and security.

In the newest installment of our lessons learned feature series, IT execs discuss the past year – a "compelling need to rapidly expand" and provide care in "new and unique ways" – and describe how those quick pivots are leading to lasting improvements.

In this new episode of HIT Cybersecurity, Lee Kim, HIMSS' director of privacy and security, talks with a panel of infosec experts about what they're seeing on the front lines.

David Stellfox, a cybersecurity communications specialist at the Pennsylvania-based health system, offers an in-depth look at how they did it.

The launch follows a successful pilot scheme in Germany and Italy. 

The operation appears to have often taken place without computer owners' knowledge.

John Fowler, deputy information security officer at Henry Ford Health System, offers an in-depth look at this type of insurance, which can be critical to provider organizations today.

The Vaccination Credential Initiative is planning to finalize two implementation guides in April, and expects to start integrating the SMART Health Cards spec into an array of consumer-facing apps and systems in May.

In this episode of HIT Cybersecurity, NIST IT Security Specialist Nakia Grayson details the unique infosec challenges inherent in delivering care from hospital to home – and shares some resources that can help.