Tag: Cyber Security

February 15, 2018

While blockchain has a number of potentially promising healthcare applications, including the management of electronic health records, the technology has certain pitfalls that may inhibit its utility. That’s the message delivered on Wednesday to lawmakers by Chris Jaikaran, a cybersecurity […]

January 11, 2018

Healthcare organizations and the patients they serve have to step up to ensure that medical records and devices are secured from hackers. According to Symantec, only 6% of the IT budget allotted in hospitals is devoted to cybersecurity. Therefore, it […]

December 13, 2017

Becton Dickinson (BD) has initiated the Product Security Partnership Programme to encourage alliances in the healthcare industry for improving the cyber security of medical technology and devices. The programme seeks partnership with government agencies, industry associations, and security researchers. BD […]

November 10, 2017

A new Trojan horse malware gambit appears to be expanding into the healthcare sector, threatening to use an organization’s stored email addresses as a platform to send out seemingly legitimate phishing emails. The innovative spear phishing emails are distributing Ursnif, […]

November 2, 2017

The Department of Health and Human Services is making progress in efforts to hire a senior advisor for cyber security, with hopes to have the position filled by early next year. The agency wants to fill the position to give […]

August 3, 2017

Hackers never quit. Their ceaseless assault on healthcare has continued during 2017, racking up hit after hit against provider organizations. Ransomware attacks continued their rise in the first half of 2017, up 50 percent over the first half of 2016, […]

August 1, 2017

Smartphones and phone-connected wearables are increasingly capable of collecting data on individuals and their environment via high-tech sensors. From heart rate, pulse, and body temperature to location, air quality, humidity and other relevant characteristics, the tiny elements embedded in our […]

May 30, 2016

Although healthcare IT seems to hardly catch its breath between one data breach and the other, with ransomware lurking at the horizon, the professionals need to prepare for the emerging  healthcare trends that will soon shake the medical system – […]

February 8, 2016

We’ll be talking about two different, but related topics that are front and center with every healthcare organization today: HIPAA compliance and cybersecurity. In 2005 the Office for Civil Rights, the organization responsible for HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule enforcement, […]

January 20, 2016

The Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidelines for device manufacturers to manage post market cyber-security vulnerabilities for medical devices. As a growing number of medical devices are designed to be networked to facilitate patient care, these devices incorporate […]

January 12, 2016

In some ways, mobile health security safeguards haven’t changed much for quite some time. Making sure that tablets and phones are protected against becoming easy network intrusion points is a given. Also seeing to it that such devices use strong […]

January 5, 2016

This has been a lousy year for healthcare data security — so bad a year that IBM has dubbed 2015 “The Year of The Healthcare Security Breach.” In a recent report, Big Blue noted that nearly 100 million records were […]

December 30, 2015

At the end of the year all kinds of publications and organizations publish yearly summaries to review the events of the past 12 months. Much of the time this can be positive publicity for a celebrity, firm, organization or industry. […]

July 2, 2015

The more health IT devices hospitals implement, the more access points hackers have to infiltrate their systems. However, many hospitals need help to protect these devices from intruders. Although devices rarely contain the kind of protected health information (PHI) hackers […]

April 20, 2015

The folks from HP Matter digital magazine wanted to know where I thought digital health startups, product innovators, and venture capital investors should be pointing their attention in 2015. These are some of my technology and healthcare predictions: 1.CMS’s request […]