Privacy & Security

Chuck Kesler has worked in information technology and data security for more than 25 years. He joined Duke Health as chief information security officer in 2011.

From "script kiddies" to sophisticated nation states, healthcare organizations have to be on the lookout for a variety of dangerous bad actors looking to crack its cybersecurity defenses, according to a recent Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology report.

For Phil Alexander, information security officer at the University Medical Center, in Lubbock, Texas, the key to safeguarding health systems is a focus on education, technology and a rapid response.

Cyber-criminals continue to pose major threats to healthcare information technology departments, and experts say it’s the lure of electronic protected health information that keeps them coming.

Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting speaker proposals for the Privacy & Security Forum in Los Angeles, May 11-12, 2016.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the MITRE Corporation are working together to foster a more a collaborative approach to address the sometimes abject vulnerability of critical medical devices to cyberattack.

Just over half of Americans feel it would be acceptable for doctors to use health information websites to manage patient records, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

A new report shows 84 percent of U.S. FDA-approved health apps tested by IT security vendor Arxan Technologies did not adequately address at least two of the Open Web Application Security Project top 10 risks. 

To make it easier for people to gain access to their personal health information, the U.

After spending the past year reporting on loopholes and lax enforcement of the federal patient-privacy law known as HIPAA, ProPublica reporter Charles Ornstein has come to realize that it's not just celebrity patients who are at risk. We all are.