Privacy & Security

Chuck Kesler, chief information security officer at Duke Health, and Mac McMillan, CEO and cofounder of healthcare IT security consulting firm CynergisTek, share similar philosophies on healthcare data security.

ESET researcher Stephen Cobb will explain at HIMSS16 why CIOs and CISOs should think of their organization like a patient and address the most urgent problems first.

Only a few days remain to submit a speaking proposal for the HIMSS and Healthcare IT News Privacy & Security Forum in Los Angeles, May 11-12.

Despite the record number of major healthcare breaches in just the past year, 74 percent of consumers surveyed by the National Cyber Security Alliance said they trust healthcare providers the most with personal information, according to a study released Thursday to mark Data Privacy Day.

MedicFP LLC, a new vendor that focuses on combating phantom billing and other healthcare fraud, and Fujitsu will debut an identity validation product that scans palm veins at HIMSS16.

The onset of cloud computing brought with it an information technology revolution, allowing organizations to have their IT resources hosted off site, reducing their costs and simplifying operations.

Cyberattacks around the world are growing in size and complexity, according to Arbor Networks 11th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, released January 26 by Arbor Networks, the security division of NETSCOUT.

One of my all-time favorite Star Trek original series episodes is entitled "The Trouble with Tribbles.

Company has launched an internal search and is notifying members whose information is on the missing hard drives.

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, the standards development organization and accrediting body for groups that exchange electronic health data, has signed memorandum of understanding with the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center to better coordinate their security initiatives.