Privacy & Security

Trivalent Protect uses a process of file-encryption, shredding, and local or cloud storage designed to transform the properties of sensitive and regulated data to make it completely unusable to hackers.

The Accenture study also finds that half of these victims were subject to medical identity theft and on average had to pay $2,500 in out-of-pocket costs per incident.

Symantec health IT officer David Finn said that despite increases in budgets and staffing, breaches and security incidents are on the rise. 

Informaticist Nephi Walton challenges health IT professionals to take a hard look at how secure their networks actually are.

At the Cybersecurity Forum, Mitch Parker encourages communications and planning that involve the entire enterprise.

Many health organizations still do not appreciate the risks they are facing from determined hackers.

At the CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum, the infamous former black-hat showed how social engineering puts systems at risk -- and how to build a human firewall to protect against it.

The new tools include connectivity, security, protection against ransomware and other technologies that the company has tuned specifically for healthcare.  

The settlement comes three years after two laptops were stolen from Horizon BCBSNJ's Newark headquarters. According to New Jersey officials, health data was left vulnerable as it was password-protected but not encrypted, as required by HIPAA and HITECH.

The Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights said more than 115,000 people had their PHI accessed and disclosed.