Privacy & Security

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.

The cyber-threats are increasingly hitting healthcare organizations with great effectiveness, and the OCR is preparing to assist executives seeking to better protect their data and systems.

Healthcare organizations are dealing with an epidemic of threats to the security of electronic health records (EHR).

The CERT Division of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute has released its list of 10 technologies emerging in the next five years with the greatest vulnerabilities in terms of cybersecurity, finance, personal health and safety.

Valita Fredland most recently served as chief privacy officer and counsel at IU Health. In her new post, Fredland will serve as vice president, general counsel and privacy officer.