Mocana, a company that focuses on smart device security, will host a summit of technology leaders to address dangerous security breaches, hacks and vulnerabilities recently reported in a range of electronic medical devices. Hosted jointly with Symantec and Codenomicon, the “Amphion Forum: Medical” will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 3, 2011 during the [...]
Medical Device Hacking Summit to be Hosted by Mocana, Symantec & Codenomicon
October 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Health Industry Under Prepared to Protect Patient Privacy; Risk of Data Breaches Rise With New Access to Digital Health Information, Says PwC Report
September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A majority of health organizations are under-prepared to protect patient privacy and secure data as new uses for digital health information emerge and access to confidential patient information expands, according to a new report released today by the Health Research Institute at PwC US. Old privacy and security controls no longer suffice to comply with [...]
meridianEMR Advanced Monitoring System Catches Security Breach
September 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
meridianEMR(®), the Livingston, New Jersey-based provider of Electronic Health Records (EHR) for Urology, announces that its Advanced Monitoring System (AMS) recently detected a security breach and other unusual activities on a practice’s meridianEMR server. This instant detection allowed meridianEMR and the Urology practice to respond immediately in protecting patient records. The successful operation of AMS [...]
Privacy breach leaves data online for one year
September 9, 2011 By 1 Comment
The New York Times is reporting that a medical privacy breach led to the public posting on a commercial Web site of data for 20,000 emergency room patients at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., including names and diagnosis codes, the hospital has confirmed. The information stayed online for nearly a year. Since they discovered [...]
Mobile Devices Pose New Security Risks for Patients; Five Experts Share Insights on mHealth
July 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Mobile devices have become as common as the stethoscope in patient’s rooms. Physicians routinely review patients’ electronic health records, read test results, access diagnostic tools and take patient notes, all with a few touches on their iPad or tablet, smartphone or using a flash drive. These mobile devices are ideal for information sharing and time [...]
Meaningful Use Drives Adoption of FairWarning Privacy Breach Monitoring
April 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
To achieve growth in meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs), care providers are deploying privacy breach detection in larger numbers than ever. FairWarning customers now represent over 500 leading hospitals representing a 67% increase in the last nine months. Health information exchanges are also adopting privacy breach monitoring in the United States and abroad. “Leading [...]
Survey: Only Half of Americans Concerned with Medical Record Security, Despite an Increase in Information Vulnerabilities
February 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
According to a survey from SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in information security, only half of U.S. adults (52 percent) are concerned with the safety of their personal data within their medical records. Medical records security ranked fourth when compared to personal identification such as social security numbers (83 percent), banking data (83 percent) and [...]
Redspin Releases 2010 Protected Health Information Breach Analysis
February 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Redspin, a leading provider of HIPAA risk analysis and IT security assessment services, today released an analysis of all protected health information breaches publicly recorded between August 2009 and the end of 2010, as per the interim final breach notification of the HITECH Act. The findings were based on 225 security breaches affecting 6,067,751 individuals [...]
Survey Says: Nearly 80% of Americans are “Concerned” about the Security of Electronic Health Records
Over the last several years, financial institutions, retailers and healthcare organizations around the world have become frequent victims of data breaches. As more and more breaches are reported that impact large numbers of consumers, customers are losing confidence in the organizations they once trusted. In the second part of a recent SailPoint Market Pulse Survey, [...]