Cybersecurity

It's time, experts said, for executives and employees to adapt.

How diagnoses can progress from the "19th-century Oslerian blueprint."

Analytics might be able to help defeat the so-called “Lasagna Law" of diminishing study subject availability.

A HIMSS expert details what hospitals need to know.

An agency leader says the process should continue “throughout the total product life cycle.”

“They have more janitors at these hospitals than they do security people.”

A HIMSS expert says everyone needs to increase their cybersecurity literacy.

A study found vulnerabilities in 21 top apps, including 18 that leaked private data.

A bioethicist said the information ends up being used in the same ways, which is what research contributors care about most.

A single case underscores the need for clinicians and hospitals to look beyond regulations when seeking consent.

“Consumer wearables fall between the cracks of what is already a fragmented and not particularly powerful set of government safeguards."

The researcher who helped shape HIPAA is now taking on gaps in patient data privacy nationwide.

Why one expert is pushing to establish a fund to pay out victims.

The administration is expected today to designate the opioid crisis a public health emergency. But what does that mean for patients’ data?

"If your app carefully sidesteps claiming any kind of medical intervention, then it's a health and wellness app and not a medical device -- and it is not regulated."

What the FDA and manufacturers can do better when issuing future updates.

A report from McAfee Labs found that the industry suffered the most security incidents of the 2nd quarter.

The notorious Locky ransomware had been thought dead, until a massive uptick in infections this August.

The company poses PicSafe, launched today, as an antidote to unsafe image sharing between doctors.

There is further information on the firmware update available online, or Abbott's hotline at 800-722-3774.

“Culture eats technology for breakfast…this is a human problem," Harnish says of the fight for higher cybersecurity standards in hospitals.

“It’s not just an IT issue…there has to be a coordinated and integrated process to understand the vulnerabilities,” Bertine Colombo McKenna said.

"FDA regulators are not security experts, and to a degree they operate in a silo void of industry experiences," contributor Hamid Karimi of Beyond Security writes.

These are the vulnerabilities in the current health IT landscape.

The culmination of several factors has made the healthcare industry a perfect target for cybercriminals. Understanding those factors, experts say, is critical to creating a more secure industry moving forward.