Cybersecurity

Unless health IT teams become more proactive, a wide range of legal, clinical and financial consequences resulting from poor legacy data management will escalate.

Data breaches are preventable. Here's how a health exec can safeguard health data.

Three areas that should be prioritized when working to improve healthcare digital security practices.

Featuring Amy Abernethy, M.D., Ph.D., principal deputy commissioner and acting CIO of the FDA.

The healthcare industry has seen a massive acceleration in the overall acceptance of cloud-based tech.

Saint Francis restored some medical records but could not backup others.

Patient safety depends on cyber safety, agency experts wrote.

Google has access to tens of millions more health records.

Three factors important for running a successful bug bounty program.

The medical center failed to encrypt mobile devices, resulting in the loss and theft of protected health information.

Arthur Harvey discusses health IT pain points and recruiting talent at BMC.

Several employees at Kalispell Regional Healthcare provided attackers with their login credentials.

How BMC gets its employees active in the tech implementation process.

There is no indication data have been misused or removed from the system, DCH said.

URGENT/11 allows anyone to take control of a medical device.

Premier Family Medical claims patients’ health data are not in jeopardy.

A health data privacy expert explains how HIPAA functions with new sources of technology collecting more data.

An unauthorized third party accessed neurology research databases.

Malware, adware, trojans and other pests from the past and future rear their heads.

The industry needs to be aware of cybersecurity threats.

More than one-quarter of employees in the U.S. never went through cybersecurity training, according to a new report.

Data privacy practices need to be updated regularly, he said.

The software has since been patched, but the weakness could have left individuals’ genomic data vulnerable.

Grand Jury subpoena connected to criminal investigation issued in March.

AI, smart speakers bring about a Wild West of health data questions.