In a March 8 session at HIMSS 2018 in Las Vegas, Kevin Charest, chief information security officer of the Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), outlined the five pillars of its cybersecurity program.

The healthcare industry has ground to cover in the field of cybersecurity. While health systems are investing time and money in technological solutions, an article in the Harvard Business Review argues the solution lies in the human element of security.

Issues with usability of electronic health record (EHR) and a lack of proper clinical processes have been linked to patient harm, according to a study published on March 27 in JAMA.

Value Colleges, an online guide ranking the top values of undergraduate and graduate education, has released its “Top 50 Best Value Health Informatics Master's Degrees” report, naming the University of South Florida as the No. 1 program in the country.

Medicare EHR Incentive Program hospitals were slightly more likely to have utilized Cerner’s electronic health record (EHR) modules, while clinicians strongly favored Epic, according to a report released in March 2018 from HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

According to the 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report (PHIDBR) from Verizon, cybersecurity in healthcare falls behind other industries in being able to protect personal information.

Google has now announced it is developing blockchain solutions aimed at ensuring the safety of its cloud systems.

The implementation of an automated notification system improved tests pending at discharge (TPAD) follow-ups by five days, according to a study published March 12 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.