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Mac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek, Inc. CynergisTek is a healthcare information security services and consultant company that helps providers in areas such as risk assessment and security testing. McMillan is a HIMSS Fellow and current chair of the HIMSS Privacy more »
With literally thousands of staff members operating within your healthcare organization – all asking for more mobility options – how do you create an environment that will work for everyone? Furthermore, what process is involved in making this type of more »
BOSTON – While in the past their relationship bordered on resentful at times, healthcare clinicians and their IT staffs are more open to collaboration. This unison of different ideologies was spurred by the absolute need to improve patient care with more »
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) released a guide this week for healthcare patients with the purpose of informing them of what types of mobile technology is available to them and how to ensure those patients know how to protect their more »
A recent HIMSS Analytics report titled Healthcare Provider Network Solutions, Barriers and Challenges analyzed responses from seven healthcare information officers such as CMIOs, CIOs or IT Directors at HIMSS13. This small focus group decided upon four key health IT concerns more »
Dennis M. Seymour, senior security architect at Ellumen, a government and healthcare solutions provider, and chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Steering Committee Chair, has seen mobile security in healthcare shift direction over the past few years. In serving more »
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 more »
One of the biggest questions surrounding BYOD has been whether healthcare data could be transmitted and stored in a secure manner while employees use their own personal devices. Large mobile cloud applications such as DropBox are the ideal solution, but more »
The extreme balancing act of ensuring health data is secure while trying to integrate new, consumer-driven technologies and BYOD policies becomes more convoluted by the day for healthcare IT professionals. John Ward, IT Director of Health System Integration at TriHealth of more »
BYOD is becoming more and more popular in healthcare because of its convenience and potential cost savings. A recent Cisco study reporting that 88.6 percent of healthcare respondents using smartphones for work purposes is certainly a strong reflection of this more »
The healthcare world is becoming ever more reliant on IT and data center infrastructures. With any new type of technological advancement, the security conversation is always nearby. The reality is simple – the greater the reliance on a certain type more »
Mobile device security in healthcare environments is at the forefront of new mHealth-focused legislation, according to iHealthbeat.org. Year-old draft regulations of bills that concentrate on privacy and security aim at ensuring consumers and patient rights are expanded when it comes more »
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 more »
Assessing a healthcare organization’s mobile security framework can help others determine what security measures and technologies work best in deploying mobile devices. mHIMSS recently released a use case study on the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) that lined up the more »
A recent Cisco Partner Network Study titled BYOD Insights 2013 examined 1,000 responses from full-time American employees with smartphones and among the respondents were an unnamed number from the healthcare industry. Managing BYOD from a health security officer perspective is more »
Barbara Bartley, Executive Director IT Operations and Information Security Officer of Baptist Health in Montgomery, Alabama, likes to say that she concentrates not on securing devices but protecting the patient data. This approach is not only important because some security personnel may more »
There have been numerous technologies introduced over the past few years that have helped healthcare organizations run more optimally. Now, there is a new focus on the end-user and the endpoints that they’re working with. While there are plenty of more »
HIMSS13 served as a platform for new initiatives and learning about different types of technology for some attendees, but for others the show was an opportunity to further research current projects. Ed Ricks, Vice President of Information Services and CIO more »
Two important health IT security trends at HIMSS13 were mobile security and cloud security because of new technology and government rules and regulations such as HIPAA. Both rank fairly high on healthcare organizations’ priority lists and HealthITSecurity.com had a chance more »
A healthcare CIO can have all of his or her system’s technology and policies in place over a period of time and be somewhat comfortable with the present status of the organization’s security architecture. It’s deviations such as new additions more »
The 24th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, which collected the opinions healthcare provider organizations’ IT pros, was released last week and provided insight into healthcare security concerns, infrastructure priorities and other compliance considerations. The Web-based survey used 298 responses from nearly 600 more »
NEW ORLEANS — The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) recently named Russell Branzel its new CEO and he’ll begin that role on April 5. Branzel has a wealth of experience in managing and securing patient data and was more »
NEW ORLEANS — Day one at HIMSS13 was certainly a busy one and HealthITSecurity.com met with a variety of attendees to lead about new security technologies and endeavors in 2013. TigerText opened the TigerText platform today to developers through TigerConnect, more »
HIMSS13 will provide a variety of opportunities for attendees. Networking (and perhaps commiserating) with fellow healthcare executives will be important. Checking out vendors’ latest and greatest products will be worthwhile. They may even have time to grab some fresh New more »
Last week’s Johns Hopkins patient privacy breach announcement was big news, but the most critical takeaway from the situation may how it plans on restoring patient confidence. The hospital sent a response last Friday to PHIPrivacy.net describing how it plans more »
