Healthcare BYOD Security
May 20 2013, Bill Kleyman (Featured on HealthITSecurity) There has been a shift in thinking when it comes to IT consumerization for many healthcare IT professionals. They are actually reinventing the BYOD trend. The end user isn’t really too concerned about the device any longer, as they’re instead focused on the mobility of data and maximizing productivity. Of course, personal and corporate-owned devices fall into the mobility category. However, the idea is being able to access data from any device at any time,...
Read MoreHospitals lose $8.3 billion using old technology
(Featured on US Today) By: Byron Acohido SEATTLE — U.S. physicians and hospitals are in the digital dark ages when it comes to using the latest mobile devices and Internet services to deliver patient care. As a result, U.S. hospitals are absorbing an estimated $8.3 billion annual hit in lost productivity and increased patient discharge times, according to a Ponemon Institute survey of 577 health care professionals, released Tuesday to CyberTruth. Hospitals continue to struggle with security and privacy concerns arising from...
Read MoreHealth BYOD Security: Don’t Block It, Control It
May 6 2013, Bill Kleyman (featured on HealthITSecurity) Companies across all industries are creating logical controllers and utilizing intelligent network segmentation to create robust BYOD platforms. Why is this happening? The goal is to create a happier and a more efficiency user. According to a recent Cisco Partner Network study (titled BYOD Insights 2013), a mere 36 percent of healthcare respondents say their employer would be prepared for BYOD issues. The facts are clear – healthcare is a whole different sort of...
Read MoreTexting Patients Securely at Your Medical Practice
April 30, 2013 , By Marisa Torrieri (Featured on Physicians Practice) Everyone uses text messaging outside of the office. Whether to text a spouse, “could you pick up the bacon?” or text a colleague, “I’ll be 10 minutes late,” texting is super convenient and often times easier than making a phone call. But using text messaging in the clinical setting, to communicate with patients or colleagues, requires a greater level of care. Thanks to HIPAA, the act of sending short messages is treated the same as sending an...
Read MoreStudy Indicates Healthcare Data Breach Preparedness Issues
April 23 2013, Patrick Ouellette (featured on HealthITSecurity) Handling healthcare security goes beyond just the technical side, as privacy and security compliance is critical to both data breach prevention and response plans. Experian Data Breach Resolution and the Ponemon Institute released a report today, titled Is Your Company Ready for a Big Data Breach?, that is composed of responses from mainly health and pharmaceutical privacy and compliance professionals as well as those from retail and financial services. All 571...
Read MoreHow Physicians Can Prepare for Cybersecurity Attacks and Meet HIPAA Requirements
April 22 2013, Featured on Physican News According to a recent study performed by the Ponemon Institute, nine out of 10 hospitals in the United States have suffered from an intrusion or data breach at some point in the last two years. As a result of dramatic changes in patient information management and security risks,today’s healthcare IT industry has drastically transformed. Government regulation and technology advances have fueled explosive growth in creating and storing protected healthcare information (PHI). To prepare...
Read More10 Security Tips for Adapting to Healthcare BYOD
April 19 2013, Bill Ho (Featured on HealthITSecurity) Among the main security challenge with healthcare BYOD security lies in the dual-use nature of mobile devices. A stolen or lost physician’s laptop will probably already have security measures built in such as whole disk encryption and authentication requirements, but smartphones and tablets, especially personal devices, often eschew these added layers of protection in favor of ease of use, simplicity and quick access. One of the biggest dangers of BYOD is the latest...
Read MoreEagle Hospital Physicians Case Study
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Read MoreWhy Health Care Data is More Secure in the Cloud
(Featured on Information Management) Public cloud-based platforms are not good locations for health care data, correct? While that may sound right, turns out it’s wrong. As we begin to study security issues in general, we’re finding that cloud-based data storage systems are perhaps more secure than traditional on-premise systems. From both my personal experiences, as well as published analyst reports that are beginning to emerge, I believe this to be true. I suspect that many health care CIOs are reconsidering their...
Read MoreTorrance Memorial Medical Center uses Secure Text Messaging to Optimize Workflow, Coordinate Care
By Nora Haile, Contributing Editor California Healthcare News You’re running late so you text a heads-up to the person you’re meeting. Your project team texts constantly and keeps the instant messaging system chiming with exchanges. It’s only natural that doctors and medical staff want the same convenience and immediacy to coordinate patient care. The issue? Risk to privacy and security of patient personal health information (PHI). As covered entities, hospitals are under scrutiny to assure compliance with HIPAA and...
Read MoreTechnology Fosters HIPAA Compliance and Data Breach Prevention
April 5 2013, Don Fluckinger (featured on SearchHealthIT) After compiling and publishing data for the Ponemon Institute LLC’s Third Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security, the researchers realized in addition to the growing awareness of data breaches, health care organizations could use help building best practices for preventing breaches and securing information. Toward that end, based on the responses of the more than 400 respondents spanning 80 different health care organizations detailing how...
Read More4 Ways Health IT Can Build Trust
April 4 2013, Benjamin Harris (Featured on HealthcareITNews) Medicine is a two-way street; it works best when the patient and the provider trust each other, and can work together for the best outcome. While technology can enable those outcomes, when improperly used — consider the epidemic of patient data breaches — it can also raise some eyebrows and scare some people away from embracing it. Scott Zimmerman, president at TeleVox Software, understands these concerns. But he sees technology offering a net gain on the...
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