How Health Apps and Wearable Tech Put Your Medical Info at Risk — and What to Do About It
How Health Apps and Wearable Tech Put Your Medical Info at Risk — and What to Do About It Photo via Pexels These days, most of us use some form of a health-related app, and many of us enjoy the benefits a smartwatch brings. We can track our...
HIPAA as a Security Framework
HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is a federal law in the United States that sets standards for safeguarding certain health information. While HIPAA includes provisions related to information security, it is not considered a comprehensive cybersecurity framework. Enacted by Congress in 1996, and has continued to...
One of Several Security Frameworks Intended To Protect Patient Healthcare Data -NIST-
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a framework that has become increasingly important in the healthcare industry in recent years. This framework is designed to help organizations manage risk and improve cybersecurity. In this article, we will explore what the NIST framework is, how it works,...
Current Healthcare Environment
As I look back over a long, successful career in the healthcare space, I have been fortunate enough to experience rapid change from the days of a pacemaker so large we were implanting them in the abdomen and tunneling the lead to the outside wall of the heart. ...