Healthcare Technology News

If your organization is a HIPAA Covered Entity, Business Associate, or subcontractor to either, and it creates, receives, maintains, or...

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way healthcare organizations operate, but ensuring cloud computing is HIPAA compliant can be a challenge....

Five vulnerabilities have been identified in the Illumina Local Run Manager (LRM), which is used by Illumina In Vitro Diagnostic...

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance, which consists of cybersecurity agencies from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and...

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) has self-reported two vulnerabilities that affect its BD Pyxis automated medication dispensing systems, BD Rowa...

A high severity vulnerability has been identified in certain Hillrom Welch Allyn Cardio products that allows accounts to be accessed...

Five vulnerabilities have been identified that affect the IntelliBridge EC 40 and EC 80 Hub, Philips Patient Information Center iX, and...

Three medium severity vulnerabilities have been identified in Philips MRI products which, if exploited, could allow an unauthorized individual to...

Two high severity vulnerabilities have been identified in the Philips Tasy EMR that could allow sensitive patient data to be...

B. Braun has released software updates to fix five vulnerabilities in its Infusomat Space and Perfusor Space Infusion Pumps. The...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning to users of Medtronic wireless insulin pumps about a serious...

The recently published 2021 KLAS Clinical Communication Platform Report has confirmed clinical communication platforms improve efficiency in healthcare, streamline communication...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning that sophisticated hackers are actively exploiting SolarWinds Orion IT...

Three serious vulnerabilities have been identified in Medtronic MyCareLink (MCL) Smart Patient Readers, which could potentially be exploited to gain...

Data show 70% of delays in providing treatment to patients is due to miscommunication, so resolving the problems that result...

A medium severity vulnerability has been identified in the BD Alaris PC Unit, which is vulnerable to a denial of...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with Zoom to resolve allegations that the teleconferencing platform provider misled...

TigerConnect has announced it has acquired Adjuvant’s Call Scheduler solution, which has now been incorporated into the TigerConnect clinical communication...

Rackspace has published the findings from its Global Cloud Budget Survey, revealing some of the key challenges companies have managing...

Alibaba is now the third largest public cloud provider behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure and is currently experiencing...

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare was launched on May 19, 2020. The new healthcare-specific offering from Microsoft is available in public...

Zoom has reached an agreement with the New York Attorney General’s office and has made a commitment to implement better...

The uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has made optimizing cloud resources a challenge. During uncertain times it is difficult...

With lockdown measures in place to prevent the spread of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, health systems have expanded their telehealth...

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) has identified a medium severity vulnerability in version 1.6.1 of the BD Pyxis MedStation medication...

12 vulnerabilities – collectively called SweynTooth – have been identified by researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design...

Every year, Rave Mobile Safety conducts a nationwide survey to identify healthcare security trends and assess the state of emergency preparedness and...

The healthcare industry is digitizing business management and data management processes and is adopting new technology to improve efficiency and...

The medical device manufacturer Medtronic has issued patches to correct flaws in its CareLink 2090 and CareLink Encore 29901 programmers,...

2019 Health Statistics published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) show healthcare expenditures in the United States are...

Amazon has announced that the Amazon Lex chatbot service now supports HIPAA compliance and can be used by healthcare organizations...

Amazon has announced that Alexa has a new healthcare skill that patients can use to manage their medications and order...

The Stop Marketing And Revealing The Wearables And Trackers Consumer Health (Smartwatch) Data Act, has been introduced by Sens. Bill...

Leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce are seeking answers from Google and Ascension on Project Nightingale. The...

A vulnerability has been identified in the Philips IntelliBridge EC40/80 hub which could allow an attacker to gain access to...

Following a report in the Wall Street Journal, Google has confirmed it is collaborating with one of the largest healthcare...

6 vulnerabilities have been identified in the Medtronic Valleylab energy platform and electrosurgery products, including one critical flaw that could...

Gartner has published its 2019 Market Guide for Cloud Service Providers to Healthcare Delivery Organizations (HDOs). The report contains an...

Cybersecurity firm Forcepoint has announced the expansion of its global partner program with two new initiatives to empower partners to...

Many Managed Service Providers (MSPs) have realized the cloud is the key to growth and success over the next few...

Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Philips IntelliVue WLAN firmware which affect certain IntelliVue MP monitors. The flaws could be...

Becton Dickinson (BD) has discovered a vulnerability in its Pyxis drug dispensing cabinets which could allow an unauthorized individual to...

A vulnerability has been discovered in Philips HDI 4000 Ultrasound systems which could be exploited to gain access to ultrasound...

A vulnerability has been identified in Change Healthcare Cardiology, McKesson Cardiology, and Horizon Cardiology devices. The vulnerability could be exploited...

Each year, Rave Mobile Safety conducts a survey to identify healthcare security trends and determine the state of emergency preparedness in...

The UK-based email security firm Mimecast has announced the launch of a new Cyber Alliance Program, expanding its API and...

It has been a particularly bad six months for the healthcare industry. Data breaches have been reported in record numbers...

The Sonicwall 2019 Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report provides insights into the main threats faced by businesses and is based on...

Security researchers at Armin have identified 11 vulnerabilities in the VxWorks real-time operating system that is used in around 2...

A new report from email security vendor Barracuda has revealed the extent to which email attacks are negatively impacting businesses...

An improper authentication vulnerability has been identified in GE Aestiva and Aespire Anesthesia devices which are used in hospitals throughout...

The importance consumers place on the privacy and security of their health information has been explored in a recent nCipher...

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts about cybersecurity...

Six security advisories have been issued covering Siemens Healthineers products. The flaws have been assigned a CVSS v3 score of...

Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) is required to pay a financial penalty of $900,000 to resolve a multi-state action over HIPAA...

Symantec has been positioned as a Leader in Enterprise Email Security in the Q2 2019 Forrester Wave Report. Forrester is...

Since the Department of Health and Human Services implemented the requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical...

Siemens has discovered several high-severity vulnerabilities and one critical vulnerability in the Scalance W1750D direct access point. The vulnerabilities can...

It is not easy to find much information when you want to compare Cisco Umbrella pricing vs Cisco competitor pricing,...

Body: The DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a new analysis report highlighting some of the common...

A vulnerability has been identified in the Philips Tasy EMR information system. If exploited, an attacker could send unexpected information...

Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Fujifilm computed radiography cassette readers. If exploited, an attacker could gain access to the...

The results of a study on healthcare cybersecurity from the perspective of consumers has recently been published by cybersecurity firm...

Six new HIPAA compliant Alexa skills have been launched by Amazon that allow protected health information to be transmitted without...

The healthcare industry is particularly vulnerable to phishing attacks and successful attacks commonly result in significant data breaches. It is...

Amazon has announced that it has developed a new system that allows identifying protected health information contained in medical images...

Earlier this month, the eHealth Initiative Foundation and Manatt Health issued a brief that calls for the introduction of a...

Two vulnerabilities have been identified in the Conexus telemetry protocol used by Medtronic MyCarelink monitors, CareLink monitors, CareLink 2090 programmers,...

Web forms offer healthcare organizations an easy way to digitally collect information from patients, but care must be taken not...

KLAS Research has given Lua Technologies’ HIPAA-compliant secure communications platform a score of 94 out of 100 in its 2018...

The Tampa, FL-based electronic health record (EHR) software developer Greenway Health LLC has agreed to settle violations of the False...

ICS-CERT has issued an alert about three high severity vulnerabilities in the IDenticard PremiSys access control system. All versions of...

Stryker has identified nine vulnerabilities that affect some of its Medical Beds. The vulnerabilities could potentially be exploited in a...

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) has identified an improper access control vulnerability in its BD FACSLyric flow cytometry solution. If...

A new report from Radware has provided insights into the threat landscape in 2018 and the spiraling cost of cyberattacks....

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Team (US-CERT) has issued an advisory about three vulnerabilities...

Life Lua, the developer of a HIPAA-compliant web and mobile access technology platform, has been named winner of a 2018...

ICS-CERT has issued an advisory concerning five vulnerabilities that have been identified in Roche Point of Care handheld medical devices....

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning about vulnerabilities in certain Medtronic implantable cardiac device programmers...

A new report by Cofense has revealed the most common healthcare phishing emails and which messages are most likely to...

The Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued five advisories in the past...

Boston-based Life Biosciences Inc. has announced it has acquired the mobile communications platform developer Lua. The move is part of...

The healthcare industry is extensively targeted by phishers who frequently gain access to healthcare data stored in email accounts. In...

Jotform has announced that it has released an enterprise version of its HIPAA forms software to allow large healthcare organizations to...

The Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued a further advisory about Philips...

A critical remotely exploitable flaw has been detected in BD Alaris Plus medical syringe pumps. The flaw would enable a...

Over the past few months, several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Philips medical devices, software and systems. This week, two...

Arnot Health has implemented a new communications solution that has improved communication efficiency, slashed the time it takes to transfer...

OpenEMR is an open-source electronic health record management system that is used by many thousands of healthcare providers around the...

An advisory has been issued by ICS-CERT about vulnerabilities in MedTronic MyCareLink Patient Monitors and the MiniMed 508 Insulin Pump....

The Massachusetts-based healthcare startup Qcentive, the developer of a cloud-based platform that helps healthcare companies with the creation and management...

ICS-CERT has issued an advisory about two recently discovered vulnerabilities in Medtronic MyCareLink patient monitors. The devices are used by...

ICS-CERT has issued an advisory following the discovery of eight vulnerabilities in version 8 of Natus Xltek NeuroWorks software used...

90% of hospitals and 94% of physicians have adopted mobile technology and say it is helping to improve patient safety...

Apple has launched a new application programming interface (API) for developers that will allow them to create health apps that...

Cofense has announced it has partnered with the monitored security and interactive business automation solution provider ADT. ADT provides cybersecurity solutions...

Warnings have been issued by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) about...

Healthcare organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud to meet their IT needs, but while there are many advantages to...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an alert about certain Abbott Laboratories implantable cardiac devices that have cybersecurity...

Healthcare providers that want to collect data from patients via websites and patient portals need to develop their own forms...

Verizon has released its annual Protected Health Information Breach Report which delves deep into the main causes of breaches, why...

Providing quality care to patients requires collaboration with specialists from different teams within a healthcare facility, and oftentimes with third-party...

The Soldier’s Project provides free, confidential mental health support services to post-9/11 military veterans and active service members and their...

Anomali has partnered with the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC) and will be providing threat intelligence to...

Palo Alto Networks has released the findings of a new survey conducted on organizations in Europe and the Middle East...

The SonicWall Cyber Threat Report 2018 published this week indicates the volume of ransomware attacks has fallen considerably over the...

The Healthcare IT data and insights company KLAS Research has released the 2017 KLAS Secure Communications Report. The report examines...

Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are becoming much more common. Cybersecurity reports suggest SCADA/ICS security breaches have been experienced by more...

Cisco has announced it has added a new whitelist only feature to Cisco Umbrella. The whitelist only option allows organizations...

A recent survey of 144 U.S-based healthcare organizations has shown the majority have already adopted off-premises computing for applications and...

Make sure you understand the relationship between electronic records and HIPAA compliance. It can be more complicated than many Covered...

Fortinet has published the results of its Global Enterprise Security Survey. The report indicates board members are still not taking...

There has been 524% growth in the number of malware variants captured by SonicWall in the past six months and...

The massive rise in new ransomware and malware variants, and the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks on businesses have been accompanied...

Each year, CyberSecurity Breakthrough runs an award program that recognizes the efforts and achievements of technology companies, their products, and...

Cisco has announced that its users can now quickly and easily block all employees from accessing websites containing images of...

Researchers from Indiana University have conducted a study of current guidelines on emailing patients and have identified major weaknesses, a...

Forcepoint has announced its security solutions now incorporate new behavior-driven controls to help protect critical business data, intellectual property, and...

Webroot has published the results of a new study that examined how well small to medium sized businesses are prepared...

The cybersecurity giant Symantec acquired the web security firm Blue Coat last year in a deal worth $4.65 billion. That...

The cybersecurity firm Symantec has been included in the leader’s Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways by Gartner. This year,...

File sharing and collaboration tools offer many benefits to HIPAA-covered entities, although the tools can also introduce risks to the...

Wireless networks offer many benefits to healthcare organizations. Healthcare professionals can access networks and data from any location using portable...

A study by Communications for Research showed that healthcare organizations are now spending $40 billion a year on IT programs,...

The challenges of developing and maintaining a custom EHR system have proved too great for the Department of Veteran Affairs....

The healthcare industry is embracing Internet of Things technology. 60% of healthcare organizations have already introduced IoT into their infrastructure...

The clinical communications solution provider QliqSOFT has been awarded a group purchasing contract by Vizient, Inc., the largest member-driven, healthcare...

The popularity of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications has grown considerably in recent years. Working practices have changed, and SaaS is well...

The adoption of cloud services continues to increase, with 68% of organizations now using at least one cloud service, up...

On Tuesday this week at the Splunk GovSummit in Washington D.C., The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled...

As more businesses take advantage of remote workers, and the use of mobile devices grows, businesses seek solutions that provide...

Incentive payments for transitioning from paper records to electronic health records has prompted many physicians to purchase electronic health record...

The results from a recently published Forcepoint survey shows millennials are placing the security of their organizations at risk by...

IT teams may be able to secure their wired and wireless on-premises networks, although it is much harder to secure...

Malicious actors are increasingly using SSL traffic to hide malware according to security researchers at Blue Coat Systems. The use...

If a hacker succeeds in breaking through network security defenses and gains access to patient data, hundreds of thousands of...

In a deal worth approximately $4.65 billion in cash, Symantec will acquire the web security firm Blue Coat Inc.  The...

Verity Health System has fallen victim to a phishing attack resulting in sensitive employee data being emailed outside the company....

Apple is seeking a Privacy Counsel with extensive experience in healthcare privacy and a thorough understanding of HIPAA regulations. The...

According to an advisory issued by the Department of Homeland Security, a popular drug cabinet system has been found to...

HiMSS Analytics has published a new report offering insight into the real cost of pagers in healthcare. The report quantifies...

When it comes to implementing new technology, the healthcare industry lags behind every other industry sector. It is a well-known...

Raytheon|Websense has recently been rebranded. From January 14, 2016 the company will be known as Forcepoint. Forcepoint combines the cybersecurity...

The healthcare industry may have been slow to start using cloud applications, but over the course of the past 12...

Aragon Research has named Lua a Contender in its in 2015 Tech Spectrum for Mobile Collaboration. Aragon Research assesses companies...

The secure mobile messaging platform provider Lua has announced it has joined the App Configuration for Enterprise (ACE) program. The...

Raytheon, a major U.S defense contractor, has announced it is to acquire Websense Inc from Vista Equity Partners in a...

Privately owned pharmacies and laboratories are covered by HIPAA Rules, and they must therefore ensure that all Protected Health Information...

The cloud offers many advantages to healthcare providers and other covered entities. It is possible to use cloud services and...

Each year the Ponemon Institute conducts an annual survey on victims of medical identity fraud to gain a better understanding...

Healthcare providers have a challenge ahead of them if they are to improve communication with field staff and other mobile...

The Solaris Hospice is one of the largest palliative care providers in the Southwest – operating from sixteen locations to...

Gartner, Inc., a Connecticut-based information technology research and advisory firm, has predicted that cloud spending will increase to $150 billion...

AV-Comparatives has given Fortinet’s FortiGuard full marks in its recent December Summary Report 2013. The Fortinet Advanced Threat Protection (APT)...

A next generation secure enterprise messaging app has recently been released, offering HIPAA-covered entities a fast, convenient and secure method...