Privacy & Security

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.

Dr. John Halamka, newly named president of Mayo Clinic Platform, shares his five-year cybersecurity forecast – and discusses his new gig.

The companies say the partnership will offer hospitals more in-depth visibility, with continuous monitoring of network activity to create a detailed inventory of connected devices. 

A bug in its codebase could cause protected health information of some beneficiaries to be inadvertently shared with others, or with the wrong BB2.0 app, the agency says.

Darren Lacey, CISO at Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine, says vulnerability management looks at a more balanced security world that protects not only data, but also transactions and systems integrity.