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Why HHS’ Cybersecurity Concept Paper Falls Short for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information. We can’t serve our patients if we don’t ensure that protected health information (PHI) is kept private.

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Ransomware Preparedness in Healthcare – Are you Doing the Basics?

Healthcare IT Today

In fact, a recent JAMA Health Forum report indicates that from 2016 to 2021, the annual number of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector more than doubled. He has his Masters in Information Security and holds CCISSP, CISA, CHC, CRISC, and ITIL-F certifications.

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Looking for career opportunity

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Update: Found a new Career, started November 2016 As some of you know, I am currently exploring new career opportunities. I have worked closely with product development teams working on small medical devices, big medical devices, health information systems, and cloud workflows combining all.

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Privacy and the New Health Ciitizen

Health Populi

Data security breaches, access challenges, and privacy leakages plague the current state of Americans’ personal health information (PHI). The Scorecard was developed to gauge the progress (and lack thereof) of patient information access afforded by peoples’ health care providers. Why is this so important?

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