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Latest Health Care News and Opinions

Unencrypted hospital laptop exposes 2k patient records

Greg Masters May 23, 2012

An employee of the Boston Children's Hospital lost a laptop holding patient information.

IT head fired, ombudsman hired in wake of Utah breach

Dan Kaplan May 16, 2012

An apologetic governor of Utah on Tuesday announced the resignation of the state's executive director of technology services, and the hiring of two others, following a massive breach affecting Medicaid claimants.

Health hazard: SC Magazine Roundtable

Illena Armstrong May 01, 2012

Health care traditionally, compared with other industries, has lagged in terms of cyber defense, but with attackers now specifically targeting these organizations for patient data, inaction is no longer an option.

ID thieves find gold in medical data

Illena Armstrong May 01, 2012

Is health care a last frontier for today's cyber criminals?

Seventeen years worth of Emory patient data missing

Dan Kaplan April 20, 2012

Emory Healthcare in Atlanta lost the personal information of surgery patients treated at its three hospitals when 10 backup discs went missing.

Health Care Features

TECH Rx: Technology and health care

Greg Masters October 01, 2010

The move to electronic medical records presents challenges, but tech solutions offer help for health care practitioners, reports Greg Masters.

Data breach defense: Response ability

Dan Kaplan July 01, 2009

When a breach occurs, customers expect more than an apology, says Bob Maley, Pennsylvania's CISO. Dan Kaplan reports.

HIPAA: Getting in tune

Greg Masters January 15, 2009

The heat has been turned up for those charged with bringing their institutions into HIPAA compliance, reports Greg Masters.

IT-GRC: Agiliance

Peter Stephenson December 03, 2008

And so we reach the end of this year's batch of innovators. But, as we look at this subcategory, we find that it wraps the whole shebang into a neat package, defining what needs to be done to secure the enterprise (and prove it) and why.

Policy management: LanDesk (Avocent)

Peter Stephenson December 03, 2008

All of us old-timers remember LanDesk from its days as part of Intel. It always was a solid suite of products. Now that it is part of Avocent, its promise as a hybrid of network and security policy management is being realized. The notion of managing the desktop and evolving that into security policy management makes a lot of sense.