Cybersecurity

As Health IT Matures, Security Approaches Must Mature With It

By Irv H. Lichtenwald – Not that long ago, healthcare worried mostly about the physical loss of personal health information (PHI) by way of a lost thumb drive, a stolen laptop, some misplaced paper files. These were the primary concerns in HIMSS initial 2008 security survey.
Five years later, the largest healthcare security breaches came from cyber attacks not lost or stolen devices.


Cybersecurity: An Essential Focal Point

By Matt Fisher – Every industry, whether it be healthcare, financial, or anything else, is under constant attack or threat to digital information. This is not news, especially in light of the numerous stories about breaches from Target to Hyatt Hotels to voter databases to health insurers and more.





Day 5: A Look at Health IT through the Movies

Day 5 of our 12 Days of Christmas Posts we look to Hollywood for inspiration and 5 movies this year that are golden. If you have staff that called in “sick” today, take heart. The most anticipated movie this year, and perhaps even this decade, opens today.


The Security of Medical Devices

By John Halamka MD – Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration advised hospitals not to use Hospira’s Symbiq infusion system, concluding that a security vulnerability enables hackers to take remote control of the system. The agency issued the advisory some 10 days after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned of the vulnerability in the pump.


DirectTrust Offers Three Keys to Improving Privacy and Security Protections for Electronic HIE

Increasing reports of cyber theft of patient information via hacking—most recently of UCLA Health System, EHR vendor Medical Informatics Engineering and its patient portal NoMoreClipboard, and, earlier, of Anthem and Premera—suggest these data breaches will continue as criminals increasingly seeking out medical data because the data contain links to financial and insurance information.