Privacy & Security

And that's because too many board members don't have the right level of IT and security expertise, a new Black Book study suggests.

Responding to an answer in parliament by a junior health minister, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Jo Platt warned the government of the dangers of the 2,300 NHS computers thatstill run on Windows XP.

Dan Bowden, CISO, and Michael Reagin, CIO of Sentara Healthcare, see big advances in cloud security – with a deeper understanding of the configurations needed for data privacy in the public cloud.

GE Healthcare says its anaesthetic machines pose no patient risk, after concerns that the devices could be tampered with by hackers.

Virtustream Healthcare Cloud helped the North Carolina-based health system "future-proof" its IT system by moving mission-critical data to its hosting service.

Julio Vivero, business partner at GMV, says medical devices and data privacy are two huge cybersecurity issues the healthcare industry is facing, and a one-size-fits-all approach is not the solution.

More than half of hospitals say they've had one or more data breaches caused by third-party vendors in the past two years, with an average cost of $2.9 million per incident – but too many are still failing to do adequate risk assessments.

The vendor’s event management technology is designed for monitoring threats to healthcare organizations and comes with built-in connectors for major healthcare applications such as Epic and Cerner.

Even as the number of organizations ready to adopt a cloud-based approach is rising, nearly a fifth of healthcare orgs surveyed said they'd consider moving their data from the cloud back on premises.

Finland and Estonia use X-Road to enable the secure exchange of data, with opportunities to expand to the rest of Europe, says Petteri Kivimäki, CTO for Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions.