Privacy & Security

While payers and large health systems have detailed protocols in place to prepare for and deal with breaches and security incidents, many hospitals and practices "don't even have plans in place."

Mobile technology makers and healthcare organizations are facing new privacy and security challenges due to the proliferation of mobile health apps and devices that must be overcome for those devices to achieve their promise.

Seeking ideas about cybersecurity, human factors, HIPAA, risk management and more.

EHR vendor is making its multi-tenant network faster and better able to keep pace with innovations and emerging technologies. 

Imprivata, the Lexington, Massachusetts-based developer of health IT security tools, has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of Thoma Bravo, a San Francisco private equity firm. The deal is valued at approximately $544 million.

Its advice includes ways to prevent and contain malware threats; OCR officials stress that these viruses are considered security incidents under HIPAA.

Still in development, the Trojan virus is an aggressive combination of two malware strains that corrupts a Windows Master Boot Record.

Amid the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape peppered with hackers, ransomware, nation-states gunning for coveted PHI, hospitals must safeguard against attempts to penetrate their networks. Here's a roundup of the top IDS and IPS tools for doing that.

The challenge for IT professionals is implementation because a product isn’t truly HIPAA-compliant until the system is in place.

Align your architecture and deployment to work within your budget while keeping in mind your annual costs of maintaining the system.