Privacy & Security

An employee of Florida’s healthcare agency fell for a phishing email, which allowed hackers to access Medicaid enrollee data.

This past year was another challenging one for healthcare organizations as they remained under sustained attack by cybercriminals who continue to target healthcare networks through the use of well-known vulnerabilities.

Affected systems include Windows, Linux, Android, Chrome, iOS and MacOS but the good news is there is a public exploit code to test your system for vulnerabilities.

The group says privacy and security, clinical documentation improvement and information governance will demand the attention of health IT and infosec executives in the year ahead.

University of Rochester’s Jones Memorial Hospital was hit on Dec. 28 and left the small, rural provider operating under standard downtime procedures.

Consumerism. Patient safety. Privacy and security and enforcement and an increase in cyberattacks will be top of mind in the next twelve months.

Akiri is developing a networking platform it says will help healthcare organizations more easily share data using blockchain.

Ananth Balasubramanian, general manager of worldwide healthcare business at Commvault, is all about data.

The policy outlined now mirrors the current position of the Joint Commission, which underwent its own series of flip-flops on the subject in 2016.

The healthcare sector is improving its cybersecurity practices but as a whole, much more needs to be done.