Privacy & Security

Pew’s director of HIT Ben Moscovitch says consumers prefer biometrics, notably fingerprinting, facial recognition and iris scans, for a unique identifier.

The industry is faring worse than others in complying with the European Union’s General Data Protection Rules, one expert says.

GA4GH, with more than 500 healthcare and IT members, works to create frameworks and standards to enable voluntary and secure sharing of genomic and precision medicine data.

Infosec and IT teams should expect ransomware attacks to continue and that’s as true in healthcare as any other industry.

Iatric hopes to use Haystack's behavioral analytics technology to offer hospitals insights that drive operational efficiencies and safeguard data privacy.

A prescription for correcting cybersecurity “blind-spots.”

Companies say cloud-based offering will help customers tap artificial intelligence tools for administrative, technical and physical safeguards.

Digital health applications, consumerism, demographic challenges and data governance will be key imperatives in the year ahead, the study shows.

Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council issued a new report saying infosec demands cross-sector collaboration.

Earlier this week, the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Singapore made an announcement that confidential information regarding 14,200 individuals diagnosed with HIV up to January 2013, and 2,400 of their contacts, has been illegally disclosed online and is in the possession of an unauthorised person.