Hospital Data Loss Affects the Majority of Hospitals
According to a recent Ponemon Institute survey, healthcare facilities have struggled to keep patient data secure. Almost 95 percent of healthcare organizations said they have leaked data within the last two years.Most of these leaks are due to staff negligence, but some of the issues are tied up in the technology used to store patient […]
What Happens When Hospital Data Gets Hacked?
Most healthcare facilities expend a great amount of resources toward compliance to safeguard patientinformation, which when compromised can lead to information getting in the wrong hands and hefty fines being handed down. Many compliance issues are violated when employees take laptops or thumb drives off campus and lose them or have them stolen and hospital […]
DICOM Exchange and Confidentiality
Digital imaging and communications in medicine, also known as DICOM, is the application layer network protocol for storing, sharing and printing medical imaging and information. The confidentiality of a DICOM exchange is of great importance to medical practitioners and IT administrators at healthcare facilities. Medical imaging is often the link between an illness and a […]