The Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a contract for a mobile device management system that's expected to support more than 100,000 devices. Find out which company won the business.
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Healthcare providers implementing electronic health records need to take steps to ensure that their EHR vendors are adequately addressing privacy and security issues, says Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
Richard Hodge, senior director of Congressional affairs at HIMSS, explains why the association has asked Congress to commission a study of nationwide patient data matching in an effort to improve patient safety.
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen says he hopes an update to the state's data breach protection law that took effect Oct. 1 will help make its enforcement less difficult.
A Government Accountability Office report says the FDA needs to develop a better strategy for monitoring information security problems in medical devices. Find out what GAO recommends, and why others agree.
Earlier this year, Bill Wansley of Booz Allen Hamilton warned of nation-state attacks against U.S. banks. Are his predictions now coming true? What should institutions expect in weeks ahead?
Healthcare organizations can learn a lesson from communication missteps in the banking sector. Banks struck by DDoS attacks are missing an opportunity to educate customers about cybersecurity, says Gregory Nowak of the Information Security Forum.
Federal regulators stirred up controversy when they sent a letter to five healthcare associations warning that the government will prosecute healthcare providers who "game" the system by using EHRs to submit fraudulent bills.
The information security threat landscape has evolved considerably over the past six years, and it's time that organizations' defenses evolve to match them, says Tom Kellermann of Trend Micro.
The Department of Veterans Affairs on Sept. 30 will award a contract for an enterprise mobile device management system that will support more than 100,000 devices. Find out how BYOD fits into the VA's plans.
Healthcare organizations need to be aware of online attacks plaguing the banking industry that could pop up in other sectors. Learn about the outages at five banks and their implications.
NIST's Ron Ross, one of the world's top information risk thought leaders, says new guidance he co-wrote doesn't dictate how organizations must approach risk assessment, but gives enterprises options on how to conduct risk appraisals.
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