Understanding how your digital health vendors approach cybersecurity, assess and respond to risk, and plan for incident response is critical to protecting your organization. Here is a set of steps to determine if your vendor is serious about their role in protecting patients.
As cyber threats continue to evolve, IT and security managers across North America must stay informed and take proactive measures to keep their organizations secure. Our industry experts have unique insights into these attacks and can provide real-life examples across all industries to help you stay one step ahead of...
Patient safety and care disruption are now directly in the crosshairs of bad actors in cyberspace, leaving many healthcare leaders to wonder whether their organizations are truly prepared when an incident occurs. In response, healthcare leaders must be able to actively measure the progress, maturity, and effectiveness...
As healthcare becomes increasingly interconnected, web tracking is easy to overlook but could introduce additional risks to patient privacy. Learn about the different kinds of patient data and the seven recommendations for reducing risk to patients, beneficiaries and the organization.
When OrthoVA CIO, Terri Ripley, made the decision to send all non-clinical personnel to work from home in the early days of the pandemic, she knew there were risks but prioritized patient, physician, and staff safety first.
Ripley says they weren’t prepared to have the workforce safely access their systems...
Healthcare cybersecurity leaders often say they do a great job of onboarding new partners, but then they add that ongoing monitoring of the relationship falls short. Jon Moore of Clearwater talks about when and where to talk security with partners - and red flags to watch out for.
Federal regulators said true health data interoperability is on its way for hundreds of millions of American patients now that six tech providers have committed to a rigorous set of trust and security criteria for swapping patient information. The agreement is a milestone years in the making.
As ransomware attacks continue to target the healthcare industry, cyber risk is now patient safety risk. Unfortunately, many cyber risk management programs are woefully understaffed and resource-constrained. As such, leading healthcare CIOs, CISOs, and Supply Chain executives are rapidly automating best practices and...
As artificial intelligence, or AI, grows in popularity for simplifying workflows and diagnosing patients, healthcare leaders need to understand that AI use is also increasing among cyberattackers and take action to prevent its use for malicious purposes.
The planned merging of two health data exchange standards organizations - DirectTrust and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission - will help support healthcare sector efforts to advance secure health data exchange, says Scott Stuewe, CEO of DirectTrust.
Third parties are frequently found to be the weakest link that can leave a healthcare organization at risk to data breaches, often resulting in major damage to reputation and costly regulatory fines.
Implementing a strong cybersecurity program is important, but equally so, is ensuring that contracted vendors are...
Google's move to soon begin deleting location history pertaining to individuals' visits to facilities offering sensitive healthcare services is a step in the right direction, but experts say technology firms and others could do more to better protect the privacy of health data.
Organizations that work with or within the healthcare industry need to prioritize and manage security and privacy-related risk and compliance programs. As the global standard for safeguarding information, HITRUST delivers a scalable, prescriptive, and certifiable framework that enables organizations to demonstrate...
Organizations that work with or within the healthcare industry need to prioritize and manage security and privacy-related risk and compliance programs. As the global standard for safeguarding information, HITRUST delivers a scalable, prescriptive, and certifiable framework that enables organizations to demonstrate...
The challenge: Universal Health Services, Inc. is one of the nation’s largest healthcare providers, with nearly 90,000 employees and almost 400 unique sites across 39 states. With hundreds of thousands of connected devices being tracked manually in error prone process, leading to major inconsistencies and lack of...
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