Privacy & Security

Hospitals should also expect Blockchain, patient experience and new iteration of vendor neutral archive capabilities.

A recent University of California survey found that a few delivery organizations and vendors believe 100 to 1,000 patients have had adverse events from compromised health IT infrastructure - and the threat will only persist.

Health system executives are convinced that mobile technology improves patient safety, but are looking for tools that feature robust security features, according to Black Book.

A number of high-profile doctors, nurses and CIOs have left hospitals to work at tech companies and they are certainly making an impact.

The month-long window is the shortest turnaround from a state and doesn’t exempt the healthcare sector, effectively giving Colorado providers just half the time required by HIPAA to report.

The new technology enables hospitals to manage disparate data from various electronic health records. 

House and Senate committees criticize department with essentially the same case sidelined Deputy CISO Leo Scanlon made in March.

The breach was contained to hashed passwords and usernames, but the DNA testing service site didn’t waste time notifying its users of the security incident.

The technology's badge-tap and single-sign-on process help avoid the slowdowns associated with "fat-finger typing," nurse says.

A hacker told Holland Eye Surgery and Laser Center in March that they had accessed a patient list, but an investigation revealed that another access occurred back in 2016.