Category: Security

Kevin Johnson is a professional hacker — albeit a self-described ethical one. As head of the security consulting firm Secure Ideas, his job involves probing into organizations’ networks and applications to identify vulnerabilities. And what he sees in healthcare terrifies him. read more …read more    

Providers should not underestimate the value of external risk assessments, no matter how strong similar internal programs seem to be, an IT security official at Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia said. read more …read more    

Apple’s HealthKit debut last week ignited a flurry of feedback and concerns from healthcare experts and industry watchers regarding privacy, the sharing of confidential data and use of medical terms. read more …read more    

The Connecticut health insurance exchange data breach has been traced back to an employee of the company that runs the call center. …read more    

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is notifying 1,801 patients that their protected health information (PHI) had the potential to be accessed by individuals not involved in their care due to the actions of an employee who had accessed the data without having proper IT security protections in place. Penn State Milton S. Hershey…

Ensuring the reliability and security of current and future IT systems will be key to helping the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs regain some of the credibility it has lost in the wake of the growing scheduling controversy. read more …read more    

Event Call out Unpublish: Mon, 06/16/2014 (All day) Event Teaser: This Privacy & Security Forum delivers what CIOs, CISOs and other healthcare IT leaders told us they want from an industry conference: peer-to-peer learning, case studies and forums to brainstorm and share ideas. Healthcare’s all about the patients, right? Earning their trust so they return…

Echoing previous calls for federal agencies to improve their cyber incident response practices, a new GAO report calls for consistent role-based training. Of the six agencies studied, only Veterans Affairs did not address that issue at all, according to the report. read more …read more    

A February breach of employees’ personal data at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has affected more than twice as many people as originally thought, according to an updated report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. A February breach of employees’ personal data at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has affected more than twice…

Of the four critical industries within the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index, healthcare and pharmaceuticals rates lowest when it comes to cybersecurity, according to recent analysis by BitSight Technologies, a Cambridge, Mass.-based security rankings provider. Of the four critical industries within the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index, healthcare and pharmaceuticals rates lowest when…