by Dawn Morgenstern | May 14, 2020 | Blog
Traditionally, when healthcare professionals discussed supply chains, it generally referred to outside vendors who provided equipment and products to facilitate the delivery of care. While that remains true today, third-party suppliers now extend beyond those...
by George W. Jackson, Jr., MBA, Ph.D., HCISPP, CISSP, PMP | May 6, 2020 | Blog
The past few months have seen a marked increase in cybercrime activities aimed at exploiting the chaos and disarray that has arisen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the field of healthcare. This threat prompted senators Richard Blumenthal,...
by admin | May 4, 2020 | Blog
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations have seen a large percentage of their workforce start working remotely while many providers have begun seeing patients remotely as well. This shift has created new threats and vulnerabilities that...
by Steve Cagle | Nov 15, 2019 | Blog
At the recent NIST-OCR Safeguarding Health Information (HIPAA Security) Conference Office for Civil Rights Director Roger Severino presented OCR’s top security concerns. He stated that they include ransomware, phishing attacks, remote desktop protocol vulnerabilities,...
by Deidre Cruit | Oct 1, 2019 | Blog
The security of medical images took center stage this past week as Senator Mark Warner of Virginia demanded that TridentUSA and its affiliate MobileXUSA outline their cybersecurity practices after ProPublica reported the imaging firms left millions of medical records...