Privacy & Security

The company is making the agency's open-source MyStudies platform available, enabling for easier access to data for research into new medications, devices and more.

While Americans think consumer tech is driving more connected relationships with their providers, they also see voice technology and AI with a skeptical eye.

Thailand's healthcare informatics system is taking cues from what other countries have learned the hard way, particularly in terms of data privacy, says TPP Healthcare International's Togio Chayanuwat.

Cybersecurity experts warn healthcare organizations not to pay up for fear of more attacks, but some provider organizations had no choice last year.

A cybersecurity expert discusses how digital risks and the needs of patient care turn health data into a liability, and that CIOs and CISOs must treat data as a living, breathing entity.

The monetisation of patient data is set to be one of the biggest drivers of new business models across the healthcare landscape – and ownership of that data can give patients the power to shape the kind of healthcare they want.

There needs to be a broader conversation about healthcare IT security at all levels of an organization, says Brian Selfridge, partner at Meditology Services.

Dr. Saif Abed, director of cybersecurity advisory services at AbedGraham, shares a clinician's perspective on cybersecurity as well as how data priorities are different in the U.K. and Europe versus the U.S.

At the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum this month, a Google Cloud exec discussed some of the technologies and strategies that can help manage a hybrid environment.

For a variety of reasons, ransomware is difficult to comprehensively research, the expert notes. But he offers a look into the problem and has some advice for CISOs, and other security professionals.