Providers especially, and the industry as a whole, continue to struggle with HIPAA compliance. Much of it continues to be a box checking mentality that physicians and their administrators or CEO's [...]

As hacking and cyberattacks continue to occur and lead to healthcare data breaches, technical safeguards are become increasingly important for healthcare organizations.

The Department of Health and Human Services needs to improve its security and privacy guidance and oversight program, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, a great opportunity to strengthen your human firewall in the war against this ransomware epidemic. We love that term, "Human Firewall" - that is [...]

That's right, 500 Million Hacked Yahoo Accounts. This is an old hack, but Yahoo is now providing more information about the hack. Thanks to our friends at knowbe4.com for alerting us about this [...]

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced this week that it has issued nine guides to help healthcare organizations assess the safety of electronic health records and to use them [...]

If we have learned anything over the years of working with healthcare providers (65% of our customers are either providers or Business Associates) we have leasrned that IT Security is paramount. [...]

We are asked this question frequently, and especially from our healthcare customers whose doctors and staff are frustrated by the password policies typically set to change them every 90 days. So, why [...]

Roughly 88 percent of all ransomware detected was discovered in healthcare, while the next most targeted industry was education at 6 percent, according to the report, published by Solutionary. One [...]

The Joint Commission has delayed the removal of the secure texting ban for physician orders, saying that more guidance is needed. The previously announced secure texting ban removal by the Joint [...]