Quest Diagnostics was notified by collections company vendor American Medical Collection Agency that an unauthorized user had access had access to AMCA’s system between August 1, 2018 and March 30, 2019.
Blockchain, an emerging technology, is coming to the world of healthcare. Three recently established startups are finding unique ways to apply it to the space.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
In light of the data breaches we have witnessed, most recently at Equifax, it seems clear that the safest way to reliably and safely identify patients is to separate the identifier from the data.
As the nature of the threat evolves, there are calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to create a cyber leader in the form of an elevated chief information security officer.
The amount is the largest such settlement to date reached with a single organization, according to HHS.
Aside from the current congressional logjam, gridlock or whatever your preferred metaphor may be, consider the fact that we are now embarking upon the general election season, which tends to add an additional layer of grandstanding and substantive paralysis to the usual fever dreams of the Potomac.
3D medical animation services have emerged as a groundbreaking tool in the healthcare industry, revolutionizing the way medical concepts are taught, understood, and marketed.
Plus, wearables may threaten corporate networks, MIT develops new online network for anonymity and voice prints may be the new passwords.
EU and U.S. agree to changes to rules on international data transfer, Google Ventures looks for AI in Europe, but end users don't seem quite ready for cognitive computing.
Intermountain Healthcare CIO Marc Probst dropped this news — but not the names of the other partners — Monday at the 13th annual World Health Care Congress in Washington.
2015 was a savage journey to the heart of the Health IT Dream.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Protected health information was stored on an unencrypted laptop that someone took out of the hospital and left in a personal vehicle. Seriously, people are still doing this?
Breaches of protected health information go far beyond the healthcare industry.
Although ICD10 and Meaningful Use work may be diminished in 2016, security work is likely to increase. As I’ve told the Board, security is a process, not a project. You’ll get better and better but will never be done.
How do we get this genomics revolution underway? Shake up our healthcare infrastructure by focusing on interoperability, patient engagement and security.
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards of Technology?, is circulating a draft guidance? on best practices for securing healthcare data on mobile devices.