With the funding, which came from Section 32, Eniac Ventures and Y Combinator, the company will advance its technology and add new employees to its sales and engineering teams.
At HIMSS, retired Brigadier General Greg Touhill, who served as the inaugural U.S. chief information security officer under President Barack Obama, offered insight on how hospitals and healthcare organizations can keep data safe.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
A survey of 101 healthcare workers in IT and business/clinical positions asked respondents to rate their level of concern about insider cybersecurity threats, with 1 being not at all concerned and 10 being extremely concerned. The mean score was 8.2.
New research from Symantec found 39 percent of Orangeworm's victims operate in the healthcare field. Its other targeted sectors like manufacturing have ties to the medical industry as well.
Instead of examining cybersecurity from the perspective of IT experts, the Nuix "Black Report" survey got inside the minds of hackers.
According to the latest Protenus Breach Barometer report, there were 37 health data breaches disclosed to HHS or the media in October, impacting 246,246 patient records.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
It's a well-known fact that the healthcare sector is a prime target for hackers. A new survey from HIMSS dives deeper into just how prepared most healthcare organizations are.
In a recent phone interview, Meditech security analyst Justin Armstrong shared his company's approach to cyberattacks and his thoughts on the future of security in healthcare.
The Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force has released a report detailing the current state of cybersecurity in healthcare and calling for much-needed change.
Remember the ransomware attack that started last Friday? It hasn't stopped spreading. And HHS is encouraging hospitals across the United States to proceed with caution.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
An enormous ransomware attack has impacted organizations across the globe, including the National Health Service. U.K. hospitals resorted to diverting patients and using pen and paper for documentation.
The 2017 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index says the number of healthcare records decreased significantly in 2016.
As news of Anthem’s massive hack from last week settled in, health IT and security experts further weighed in on the charged discussions surrounding healthcare cyber security and whether Anthem was adequately prepared for the attack. It was quickly noted in security circles that the insurer had failed to encrypt its data on some 80 […]
Health care providers have a long history of protecting sensitive patient information but the fact that more and more health care equipment is now connected to the internet opens up this data to a new range of exposure risks. All hospitals currently do have formal strategies to protect medical device security in order to comply […]