Privacy & Security

Security breaches can happen outside of the four walls of a hospital.

Kathy Minnis, director of product strategy at Microsoft, discusses how putting the right tools in clinicians’ hands can remove barriers to reconnecting with patients, while protecting data privacy.

With protected health information such a juicy target for cybercriminals, both data theft techniques are on the rise in healthcare.

The new service from the standards development group will help healthcare clients optimize risk assessments, spot and fix compliance gaps, and manage third-party assurance needs, the standards group says.

Ridgecrest Regional spent $72 million on a building that withstood an earthquake, but broken water pipes forced an evacuation anyway.  

Use of Direct messaging increased by more than 50 percent over the previous quarter and nearly 400 percent since last year.

The technology could help healthcare organizations build a more comprehensive and secure protected health information inventory within Kubernetes workloads on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

BlueKeep? Dridex? A state of emergency in Louisiana? Healthcare security pros find themselves living in interesting times. But with new threats emerging each day – and old ones, like phishing, not going away – some tried and true lessons are still useful.

In August, Healthcare IT News, along with our sister sites, MobiHealthNews and Healthcare Finance, will focus on the many ways the industry is succeeding – and the places it's falling short – when it comes to the all-important task of enterprise security.

It’s the operating system that runs the elevator, the HVAC system, medical equipment, and even the router that connects everything else in a hospital to the outside world.