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Founded by Medical Doctors, Clinical Cyber Defense Systems (CCDS) Launches Security Analytics Platform

by Fred Pennic 09/25/2019 Leave a Comment

Clinical Cyber Defense Systems (CCDS) Launches in Boston with a Security Analytics Platform Created by Medical Doctors

- Founded by two medical doctors, Clinical Cyber Defense Systems (CCDS) officially launches in Boston with a new security analytics platform called DYNAMIKANALYTIX. - CCDS is a healthcare cyber defense systems manufacturer dedicated to protecting hospitals and preserving patient safety. - CCDS ‘ Active Threat Intelligence (ATI) solutions translate technical security findings into real-time healthcare outcomes so hospital leaders, from the CISO to the CMIO have access to actionable
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EHR Fax Server Error Exposes Thousands of Physician Notes, Medical Records

by Fred Pennic 03/18/2019 Leave a Comment

Two leaked documents found on the fax server, redacted. (Image Credit: TechCrunch) Thousands of physicians’ notes and medical records were left exposed by a fax server error within Meditab, an all-in-one multi-specialty EHR, Practice Management and Billing software solution, TechCrunch first reports. Dubai-based cybersecurity firm SpiderSilk discovered the unsecured exposed fax server was running an Elasticsearch database with over 6 million records since its creation in March 2018. It is
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AMIA Pushes ONC for More Transparency with How Cures Mandated EHR Reporting Program Performs with Live Patient Data

by Jasmine Pennic 10/18/2018 Leave a Comment

AMIA Urges CMS to Rethink Informatics Policies as New Models of Care Emerge

 In comments submitted to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) questioned the constrained scope of the EHR Reporting Program to “provide publicly available, comparative information on certified health IT,” to “inform acquisition upgrade, and customization decisions that best support end users’ needs.” In response, the nation’s informatics professionals strongly recommended that the EHR Reporting Program measure
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HSBlox Unveils AI-Powered EMPI Solution to Ensure Secure Patient ID Matching & Sharing

by Fred Pennic 06/26/2018 Leave a Comment

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HSBlox’s new Enterprise-wide Master Patient Index (EMPI) utilizes machine learning to improve patient safety with secure, accurate sharing of patient data throughout the healthcare landscape. HSBlox, a healthcare blockchain-focused company that is bringing innovation and transparent economics to the healthcare ecosystem, today announced the launch of its SmartMPI solution, which utilizes machine learning to provide next-generation patient ID matching and secure, transparent sharing of patient
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Healthcare Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices to Protect Patient Data

by Saurabh Harit 02/19/2018 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices to Protect Patient Data _Cybercrime in Healthcare_Infographic: History of Security Data Breaches in Healthcare

Hospital-acquired infections and data breaches may have vastly different causes, but they have one thing in common—they put healthcare organizations and patients at risk. The “pathogens” which cause data breaches originate both externally and internally—but practicing healthcare cyber hygiene can reduce or eliminate their “infection."Patient data has high value—to others. According to Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, healthcare has the second highest number of breaches after
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Protenus Lands $11M to Expand AI-Driven Compliance Analytics Platform

by Fred Pennic 01/22/2018 Leave a Comment

Protenus

Baltimore, MD-based Protenus, a provider healthcare compliance anlaytics has raised $11 million in Series B funding co-led by F-Prime Capital Partners and Kaiser Permanente Ventures, with participation from Arthur Ventures, Lionbird Venture Capital, and Cognosante Ventures. The company plans to use the funding to accelerate sales and customer support hiring, as well as R&D to expand platform capabilities.Founded in 2014, the Protenus platform makes an analytical assessment of every digital
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Philips Survey Reveals Incomplete Patient Data Biggest Threat to Patient Safety

by Fred Pennic 10/26/2017 Leave a Comment

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Patient safety remains a priority for key healthcare stakeholders, according to Philips released data from a U.S.-based survey that looks at what physician and nurse leaders consider the top threats to patient safety. The survey, which included responses from 251 physician and nurse leaders reveals 74 percent of physician and nurse leaders say they believe lack of patient data during in-hospital transport is a risk to patients. Almost three-quarters of physician leaders (73%) and four in five
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CloudMine, Redox to Optimize Secure Sharing of Healthcare Data in the Cloud

by HITC Staff 02/22/2017 Leave a Comment

7 Essential Steps for Safely Moving Patient Data to the Cloud

CloudMine, a secure, cloud-based platform that enables healthcare organizations to build connected digital health apps has partnered with Redox, a cloud-based healthcare integration and API services to enable users to seamlessly connect to many clinical systems while keeping data secure in the cloud. The digital health developers, and various healthcare organizations who use CloudMine need to access and share data with EHR systems using a modern and streamlined API. Redox does just that, acting
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Accenture: 1 in 4 US Consumers Have Had Their Healthcare Data Breached

by Fred Pennic 02/20/2017 Leave a Comment

One in four U.S. consumers (26 percent) have had their personal medical information stolen from technology systems, according to results of a survey from Accenture

One in four U.S. consumers (26 percent) have had their healthcare data breached from technology systems, according to new survey from Accenture released at HIMSS17.  The survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers reveals that half (50 percent) of those who experienced a breach were victims of medical identity theft and had to pay approximately $2,500 in out-of-pocket costs per incident, on average.“Health systems need to recognize that many patients will suffer personal financial loss from cyberattacks of
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Survey: 25% of Healthcare Organizations Are Putting Patient Data at Risk in the Public Cloud

by Fred Pennic 02/16/2017 Leave a Comment

7 Essential Steps for Safely Moving Patient Data to the Cloud

25 percent of healthcare organizations are not using any form of encryption in the public cloud, according to workload security provider HyTrust's latest Healthcare Cloud Survey. The Cloud Adoption survey of 51 healthcare and biotech organizations analyzes healthcare organizations use of public cloud, the utilization of public cloud implementations, and how data is protected in these cloud environments. The survey also found that 63 percent of healthcare organizations say they intend to use
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