Actions ranging from data theft to ransomware cost the healthcare industry over $9.2 million on average for every breach. Guidelines for making computing environments that house and utilize sensitive protected healthcare data more secure are highlighted in a new whitepaper by Ventech.
The problem, according to researchers, is not fitness trackers themselves, but privacy regulations woefully unprepared to deal with the new types of data being produced, collected and analyzed.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
A new software service from the company called Amazon Comprehend Medical uses machine learning and natural language processing to extract relevant medical information from doctors' notes, clinical trial reports and patient health records.
Verizon's latest Protected Health Information Data Breach Report finds that healthcare stands apart from other industries regarding the internal threat to security.
All state governments dispose of large numbers of older computers each year, and while they all have procedures in place to scrub sensitive data from the hard drives before releasing them, there have been reports of slip-ups. An audit conducted last summer on computers approved for sale or donation by Washington state found that 9% […]