Privacy & Security

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.

WhiteHat's application security and DevSecOps expertise will help NTT widen the protections it can offer healthcare and other clients working on enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives, the company says.

There's continued resistance from many pharmaceutical industry executives, who think it's never possible to safely store sensitive data in the cloud.

At UMass Memorial Health Care, an audit found a vendor security problem. Here’s how the health system bolstered its security while achieving a 594% annual ROI.

For all the potential benefits of SaaS-based analytics and AI apps, privacy concerns remain, slowing data sharing and suggesting the need for new approaches to cloud security.

A team from the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London published a paper on NHS cybersecurity this week.

Google, the University of Chicago Medical Center and University of Chicago are listed as defendants in a class action suit that alleges they failed to properly de-identify sensitive patient medical data.