Search Tag: Cyber Security

Health Management

Cybersecurity-preventing-the-worst-case-scenario

2022 23 Dec

As healthcare has become ubiquitously digitised, we have reaped the benefits of more easily accessed and shared patient data. Clinicians know more about their patients’ medical history and have digital tools to better assist in diagnosis and care. But this has also increased our risks. Bad actors and recognising the monetary value of healthcare...Read more

IT Management

Cybersecurity-risks-arising-from-healthcare-employees

2022 29 Mar

Cybersecurity company, Mobile Mentor, and the advisory firm, Center for Generational Kinetics (CGK), found that workers in the healthcare sector are mature, take security seriously, and want to do more to protect patient data. Despite this, the healthcare industry still has Shadow IT issues, poor password hygiene, and inefficient processes for onboarding...Read more

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity-risks-arising-from-healthcare-employees

2022 29 Mar

Cybersecurity company, Mobile Mentor, and the advisory firm, Center for Generational Kinetics (CGK), found that workers in the healthcare sector are mature, take security seriously, and want to do more to protect patient data. Despite this, the healthcare industry still has Shadow IT issues, poor password hygiene, and inefficient processes for onboarding...Read more

IT Management

Healthcare-security-forum-2020

2020 07 Dec

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IT Management

Will-contact-tracing-work

2020 11 May

Contact tracing has been one of the tools a few governments around the world adopted in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, with an impressive amount of resources thrown into the development and implementation of this technology. But will it actually work? Not necessarily, say some experts.   You may also like: Cyber Hackers Exploit...Read more

IT Management

Tips-to-be-protected-from-fraud-in-the-age-of-coronavirus

2020 22 Apr

The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to spread like wildfire in the U.S., causing panic and chaos among hardest-hit communities. While everyone - individuals, families, businesses, and the government - are busy trying to contain the virus, opportunistic criminals have come out to wreak havoc on an already stressful situation. Scammers prey on...Read more

IT Management

Keeping-up-with-covid-19-cyber-criminals

2020 21 Apr

Around the world, health systems have to grapple with the unprecedented challenges spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Aggravating the situation is the uptick in cybersecurity threats, an indication of how hackers are taking advantage of the chaos in this time of public health emergency.   You might also like: Simulation Predicts COVID-19...Read more

Cybersecurity

Keeping-up-with-covid-19-cyber-criminals

2020 21 Apr

Around the world, health systems have to grapple with the unprecedented challenges spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Aggravating the situation is the uptick in cybersecurity threats, an indication of how hackers are taking advantage of the chaos in this time of public health emergency.   You might also like: Simulation Predicts COVID-19...Read more

IT Management

Medical-device-security-health-check-from-eu

2020 17 Mar

  Digital healthcare aims to improve delivery of care and outcomes for patients. However, an upward trend in healthcare cyber attacks has raised concerns about the use of IoT medical devices and patient safety. The technologically fragmented IoT infrastructure, as noted by infosec experts, is a major factor behind the increasing number of attacks....Read more

Cybersecurity

Medical-device-security-health-check-from-eu

2020 17 Mar

  Digital healthcare aims to improve delivery of care and outcomes for patients. However, an upward trend in healthcare cyber attacks has raised concerns about the use of IoT medical devices and patient safety. The technologically fragmented IoT infrastructure, as noted by infosec experts, is a major factor behind the increasing number of attacks....Read more

IT Management

Ten-ways-to-keep-your-networks-hacker-proof

2020 26 Feb

  As healthcare continues to be a target for cyber attacks, the European Union cybersecurity agency the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has issued a guide of recommendations for protecting hospital computer networks.   You might also like: Staff Training Urgently Needed for HealthcareCybersecurity   Called...Read more

IT Management

Our-top-15-technology-stories-from-2019

2019 28 Dec

As the year draws to a close, we take a look at our most viewed technology stories across our 2019 news and journals.   Fighting Cyber Threats With a Global Community Denise Anderson, President of the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC), spoke to HealthManagement.org about this growing global organisation’s aim...Read more

IT Management

Cio-or-business-manager-managing-it-spend

2019 28 May

Budgetary constraint is a common problem that many healthcare IT executives (e.g., CIO and CTO) have to deal with. One such executive is Jake Dorst, Chief Information and Innovation Officer at Tahoe Forest Health System (THFS), who has candidly stated: "I have yet to have a fiscal budget approved where all the projects and funding requests were...Read more

IT Management

4-ways-to-protect-data-beyond-endpoint

2019 28 May

Data collection is accelerated by the Internet of Things (IoT) with the use of both onsite and remote IT systems, apps and devices. Cloud computing, on the other hand, makes it easier for organisations and business entities to store, use and share information. With data increasingly moving across endpoints and in the cloud, it is important for security...Read more

Executive Health Management

Highlights-from-the-i-i-i-blog-7

2019 22 May

(I expert, I question, I answer)  Have you got something to say? Visit  https://healthmanagement.org/blog/index  or contact [email protected]     Diane Bell Healthcare Expert - PA Consulting, UK     TOP QUOTE FROM THE BLOG:  ‘Post-Brexit: should UK healthcare become more European?’  "Even without Brexit, the NHS needs...Read more

IT Management

Part-2-how-to-be-one-step-ahead-of-healthcare-cyber-hackers

2019 03 Apr

  A recent report from advisory BDO has highlighted ‘the most underrated cyber threats’ in the healthcare sector. ‘Brace for the Breach’, showed a growing trend in decentralised cyber attacks and nation state cyber attacks on hospitals  in addition to a movement towards rypto jacking replacing Ransomware. In part 2 of a 2-part interview,...Read more

Cybersecurity

Part-2-how-to-be-one-step-ahead-of-healthcare-cyber-hackers

2019 03 Apr

  A recent report from advisory BDO has highlighted ‘the most underrated cyber threats’ in the healthcare sector. ‘Brace for the Breach’, showed a growing trend in decentralised cyber attacks and nation state cyber attacks on hospitals  in addition to a movement towards rypto jacking replacing Ransomware. In part 2 of a 2-part interview,...Read more

IT Management

Iot-internet-of-things-conference-exhibition-north-america-2019

2019 13 Nov

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Executive Health Management

Hett-2019

2019 01 Oct

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IT Management

4-tips-on-blockchain-and-gdpr-compliance

2019 08 Jan

Blockchain technology has been touted as an important innovation when it comes to storing and securing data, which abounds in healthcare. Some experts say the technology could help facilitate the creation of a more comprehensive, secure and interoperable repository of health-related information.   Many healthcare organisations in Europe are...Read more

Executive Health Management

Ft-digital-health-summit-europe-2019

2019 18 Jun

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Executive Health Management

The-digital-healthcare-show-ehi-live-2019

2019 26 Jun

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IT Management

Cybsec-and-blockchain-health-2019-1

2019 11 Jul

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IT Management

Boost-to-england-s-health-cyber-security-following-ps150-investment

2018 09 May

£150 million will be spent on NHS cyber security over the next three years¸ reducing the impact of an attack, announced t he Department of Health and Social Care. The department has announced a new multi-million pound Microsoft security package that will ensure all health and care organisations can use the most up-to-date software with...Read more

Executive Health Management

Uk-healthcare-sector-s-leading-conference-and-trade-event-grows-to-two-days-moves-to-excel-london

2018 09 May

The UK Health Show , the leading event for the whole of the UK’s healthcare sector, returns for two days on 25-26 September as it grows into its new home of ExCeL London for 2018.   The UK Health Show is the UK’s leading live-event platform connecting senior healthcare decision makers, influencers and buyers from across the NHS and the...Read more

ICU Management

Cyber-security-and-emergency-medical-systems-going-beyond-patch-and-pray

2017 24 May

Recent cyberattacks have left public authorities reeling at the relative ease with which a malign individual or organisation can bring about widespread disruption of services. The main target of recent attacks in the health sector was the National Health Service in the UK. The fact that the problem boiled down to a software fix or ‘patch’ which had...Read more

IMAGING Management

All-sectra-customers-live-following-recent-ransomware-attack

2017 19 May

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company  Sectra  reports that all customers in the UK are again operational with Sectra’s IT solutions. No customers outside the UK were affected by the recent ransomware attack.  “I am proud to say that the close partnership we have with all our customers in combination with clear crisis management...Read more

IT Management

Prevention-is-the-best-form-of-medicine

2017 18 Apr

Hospitals and other healthcare organisations (HCOs) are increasingly singled out by cyber criminals for ransomware and other attacks. Not only are patients’ sensitive records being targeted, but also their intellectual property or credit card information. The primary   reasons for the HCO vulnerabilities are outdated security architectures,...Read more