Healthcare organizations have faced continual stress from heavy COVID-19 caseloads in 2020. Cyberattacks on their information networks also loomed as a serious threat, and the pressure to protect data is expected to grow this year, as more criminals target healthcare providers. Protecting patient data from unauthorized access has long been a regulatory prerequisite for healthcare organizations. But increasingly, cybercriminals see profit potential in attacking and crippling their networks,
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Healthcare IT Security
Imprivata, Vocera Integrate for Secure and Convenient Clinical Mobile Device Authentication
Healthcare IT security company Imprivata and Vocera Communications, a provider of clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced an integration partnership to help healthcare organizations unlock the full potential of mobility in healthcare. Combining Imprivata Mobile Device Access with Vocera Collaboration Suite, the partnership enables fast, familiar authentication into shared clinical mobile devices and the Vocera smartphone app, eliminating the burden of manual logins for
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Imprivata Unveils Identify Governance for Secure, Role-Based Access to Apps
Imprivata, the healthcare IT security company, today introduced Imprivata Identity Governance as the first step in enabling end-to-end Healthcare Identity and Access Management (IAM) with Microsoft Azure Active Directory. Imprivata Identity Governance delivers a new level of security and compliance to healthcare organizations by ensuring the right users have the right access to the right on-premises and cloud applications, and the audit trail to prove it.Complements Microsoft Azure Experience
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Imprivata Integrates Biometric ID with Verato’s Patient Matching
Imprivata, a healthcare IT security company, and Verato, a provider of patient identity matching solutions, today announced an integration partnership to offer a comprehensive solution for patient identification and record matching challenges. The integration will link links Imprivata PatientSecure, a positive patient identification solution for healthcare, with Verato Universal™ MPI, a cloud-based master patient index (MPI) solution powered by Verato’s proprietary referential matching
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Healthcare Ransomware: Why Providers Should Not Pay the Ransom
Editor's Note: Dean Wiech is the Managing Director of Tools4ever, a global provider of access management and governance solutions.Healthcare is simply in the crosshairs of some really nefarious people. You’d have to be living under a rock to have missed the comments on everything that has been happening in the sector. The daily headlines include such news as “Hospital declares State of Emergency after ransomware infection”; “Hospital pays ransom to get data back”; “Dangerous escalation in
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Humans Are The Greatest Assets to Healthcare IT Security, Not Technical
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere SystemsYou know already that the biggest threat to healthcare IT security is the human element. But if human beings
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3 Basics of Effective BYOD for Your Healthcare Organization
Imprivata’s David Ting talks about the basics of effective BYOD for your healthcare organization in successfully establishing mobile security.
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