3 Healthcare Security Wake Up Calls
Never let a good crisis go to waste. Whoever said it first (possibly Churchill, though it’s debated) understood a deeper truth about life, often missed in easier times: storms of crisis and suffering tend to shake us out of complacency, spurring us to seek change. Case in point: it goes without saying that COVID-19 has... Continue reading
The Future of Healthcare: IoT, 5G, & Managed Security
In this final week of National Cybersecurity Awareness month, we’ll look closer at the Internet of Things (IoT) with a particular focus on what this means for cloud, HIPAA, and the future of healthcare. Two trends will be especially impactful: the rise of 5G, and the growth of managed security and cloud. Where We Are... Continue reading
Securing IoMT for Healthcare
We live in an amazing time, one in which a growing number of sophisticated, ‘internet of medical things’ (IoMT) are facilitating critical treatments to improve patient health. Consider just two: difficult-to-monitor, chronic conditions like diabetes and heart failure are benefitting from “smarter” insulin pumps and pacemakers – both aided by real-time, remote monitoring and feedback loops.... Continue reading
Week 2 of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
No doubt, 2020 has disturbed the status quo in numerous ways, impacting our work, schooling, and social gatherings – even the way we receive our healthcare. And while the pandemic has hastened a transition to increased virtualized care and telehealth, a recent analysis notes how this change was already well underway, even before Covid-19 was... Continue reading
Week 1 of National Cybersecurity Month
If You Connect It, Protect It October is National Cybersecurity Month, and ‘If you connect it, protect it’ is the theme for week #1. (With over 90% of the US population now on the internet, the theme easily might have been ‘When you connect it, protect it’). It’s an apt reminder, as cybercriminals are capitalizing on... Continue reading
HIPAA WordPress for Developers
Today’s healthcare organizations put a premium on positive engagement and patient satisfaction. As a healthcare website developer, you seek to foster this with flawless functionality and elegant features to improve the user’s experience. You do this by clarifying your brand, and what sets it apart; highlighting the provider’s services clearly is also key. In the end, you... Continue reading
HIPAA Certification vs Compliance – Do You Know the Difference?
All healthcare organizations, health app developers, and associated covered entities are responsible to protect sensitive, medical data. But will a simple software solution or training course be sufficient to make them HIPAA compliant? Certainly, technology plays an important role. But HIPAA compliance depends on much more than the right security tools, or even obtaining a certification. So... Continue reading
How to Save a Life
Sadly, it’s happened: As reported in the New York Times, on September 10 a woman fighting for her life was turned away from the University Hospital, Düsseldorf because hospital servers were infected with ransomware. With vital systems crashing, emergency treatment could not be administered. By the time the woman could receive services – in another hospital,... Continue reading