Privacy & Security

Despite the many potential rewards of networked healthcare, the risks are very real -- and potentially catastrophic -- when it comes to wearable and implantable medical devices, a new report shows.

(SPONSORED) As connected care becomes the norm in healthcare, security threats strike fear into all healthcare organizations. Protecting data requires a comprehensive system of practices, policies and solutions designed to protect data at rest and in motion.

(SPONSORED) Shawn Hakl discusses the importance of security in a network that carries personal health information.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently signed a bill that will postpone a deadline for physicians to issue only electronic prescriptions. Despite this, some hospitals are adopting IT that will enable secure e-prescribing of controlled substances.

(SPONSORED) Wade Baker is an information security leader with a passion for figuring things out and making things work at all layers.

(SPONSORED) Innovations in mobility, cloud and M2M technology have allowed healthcare organizations to transform how they do business and care for patients. But those same technologies can leave organizations and their valuable data vulnerable.

In what looks like it might be becoming a trend, another health plan has been targeted with a "sophisticated cyberattack," with hackers gaining access to the financial and medical information of 11 million members.

Imprivata will showcase solutions for safeguarding mobile and desktop messaging across the enterprise at HIMSS15.

Incorrect or missing data in electronic health records and other health IT systems is a huge patient safety hazard. Worse, according to ECRI, once inaccurate data gets into an EHR, "it's hard to get it out."

Healthcare IT News has created a searchable and sortable accounting of HIPAA breaches, using Department of Health and Human Services data. Check out the list, which includes 1,149 reported breaches compromising the protected health information of more than 41 million people.