CHIME launches CSO education, collaboration initiative
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) officially launched its support program for healthcare chief security officers (CSOs), titled the Association for Executives in...
View ArticleHealthcare CISO education program focuses on risk management
Could a healthcare organization’s biggest risk be within its own IT security department? A new HITRUST program shed light on some educational gaps among healthcare CISOs and CIOs that need to be filled...
View ArticleHealthcare CSO on CHSI breach: Security technology decisions
News of Community Health Systems, Inc. (CHSI) experiencing a 4.5-million patient data breach sent ripples through the healthcare industry because of both the sheer scope of the incident and interest in...
View ArticleAetna CISO: Healthcare must take risks to lessen security risk
BOSTON – Jim Routh, Aetna Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) challenged today’s HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum audience to take risks in order to manage risks more effectively. During his...
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Texas Health CIO’s five keys to a successful security program
The day that Ed Marx, CIO of Texas Health Resources, got his organization’s senior executives’ attention about security was when he showed them how easy it was to obtain their passwords and hack their...
View ArticleWhy healthcare CISOs must prioritize, organize threat data
Considering the high volume of security threat information coming across the desk of healthcare CISOs, it’s imperative that they have a system in place to rank these risk reports while reacting...
View ArticleHow to search for qualified healthcare IT security personnel
Finding qualified healthcare security personnel remains a challenge in an industry where new threats make protecting patient data more complex by the day. Seeing as about half of the 2013 HIMSS...
View ArticleBrigham and Women’s ISO talks FDA, mHealth device security
Seeing as there has been an abundance of mHealth news and announcements involving mobile device security and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance over the past month or so, the topic is growing...
View ArticleHealthcare CISOs gaining importance to the industry
Though the much-maligned Target data breach did not involve healthcare data, some post-breach commentary can certainly be applied to the healthcare industry. Former Target manager of cyber and global...
View ArticleWhy Healthcare Security Must Be Top Priority for CIOs
Eight CIOs met to discuss healthcare security issues and what they can do to best mitigate cybersecurity risks. Healthcare CIOs admit that it’s not a matter of if their health systems will be breached,...
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