Privacy & Security

The protected health information of thousands of football players may have been compromised after a backpack that held a laptop containing the digital medical records of NFL team members was stolen from the car of a Washington Redskins trainer.

CHIME has named two winners of the "Concept Blitz Round" of the National Patient ID Challenge it launched with HeroX, selected from an initial round of eight finalists.

Speak their language. Don’t talk too deeply about technology. But also remember to pitch the innovative ways that investing in security can improve the business, executives from Henry Ford, NIST, PwC, Texas Children's and others advise.

For the U.S. to effectively digitize their infrastructure, the National Association of State CIOs said a stable and talented workforce is needed.

By Mike Willingham, Vice President of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs, Caradigm The mandate for healthcare information security is clear.

The document outlines eight guidelines for achieving precision medicine principles, including a ‘participant-first’ system.

The chief information officer and CHIME board chair testified that it is vital for Health and Human Services to institute a coordinated plan for protecting data and systems against cyberattacks.  

With big issues on CISO plates, including malware, application security, cloud security and others, a new study from cybersecurity staffing firm SilverBull found that salaries are on the rise, with the highest up from $380,000 in January 2016.

The public platform, DTSec, contains a set of security performance requirements to prevent cyberattacks and data breaches.

Kansas Heart Hospital declined to pay the second ransom, saying that would not be wise. Security experts, meanwhile, are warning that ransomware attacks will only get worse.