A surge in cloud adoption by healthcare organizations brings new challenges, particularly in safeguarding data across diverse providers while meeting regulatory frameworks.
From our experience providing identity management services to healthcare SaaS companies, here are five rules for building more secure SaaS applications. The list can serve as a guide either for healthcare organizations looking to move key operations to SaaS or to makers of SaaS applications for healthcare customers.
The threats of ransomware and phishing are more prevalent than ever, but not all healthcare providers have appropriately adjusted their strategies to mitigate increasing risk. In fact, a new report shows that many healthcare organizations could be overestimating their level of cloud security.
Dell Healthcare & Life Sciences announced Monday morning that it has hired Dr. Nick van Terheyden as its new CMO. Van Terheyden comes over from Nuance Communications, where he served as CMIO for five years.
A new data security company called Cloud-Clout launched Thursday on Kickstarter with some pretty bold claims about cloud security.
With the mandate from government across the healthcare industry to start putting all medical records online, more attention is being given to the protection of Personal Health Information (PHI). You can draw obvious conclusions about how personal and sensitive information could be misused if improperly disclosed. Some fear that it might be used to deny […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule regulations encourage business associates to healthcare companies to share responsibility for data breaches. These new regulations involve signing “Business Associate Agreements” with providers, yet are likely to strengthen trust in cloud security, and allow more healthcare entities to enjoy the benefits of the cloud while ensuring that patient privacy is maintained. […]
Effective cloud security allows businesses to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing while ensuring that data is secure. Healthcare organizations have many good reasons to use the cloud. Healthcare typically involves masses of data and large amounts of data analysis. The cloud excels at mass storage and at large scale computation. The fit […]
One of the challenges many healthcare organizations face is sharing health information among practitioners, medical facilities and insurance companies for the benefit of the patient, without violating his right to privacy. The “old school” way, in which each doctor or facility had its own records and records were not shared, was proven to be inefficient […]
