How to Manage Privacy and Security Risks for Personalized Medicine
Personalized medicine, or tailoring medicine to individuals based on genetic and other information, promises major benefits to improve the quality of healthcare. This key trend is also sure to...
View ArticleHow to Securely Collect Data for Personalized Medicine
In my last blog, I discussed the rationale for applying privacy and security best practices to enable the benefits of personalized medicine while minimizing risks of breaches and other types of...
View ArticleHow to Securely Use Data for Personalized Medicine
In my last blog, How to Securely Collect Data for Personalized Medicine, I discussed risks and safeguards for how to collect data for personalized medicine. The next step in the information lifecycle...
View ArticleHow to Securely Retain Data for Personalized Medicine
Personalized medicine promises compelling benefits in improving the quality and reducing the cost of healthcare. Personalized medicine is enabled by powerful new types of sensitive data including...
View ArticleHow to Securely Share Data for Personalized Medicine
Many of the benefits of personalized medicine depend on sharing genetic and other healthcare information. For example, deriving meaning out of healthcare data and in particular genetic data requires...
View ArticleViewing Health IT Privacy as a Purchase Decision
Recent privacy storms around government surveillance, big data / analytics, social media and so forth have led many media publications to proclaim “privacy is dead.” To cope with these trends, as well...
View ArticleHow to Securely Dispose of Information for Personalized Medicine
To fully realize the benefits of personalized medicine while avoiding negative impacts such as breaches, we must minimize the associated privacy and security risks. Personal information, including a...
View ArticleHow to Handle the “Grey Region” of Health IT Privacy
Healthcare workers are increasingly empowered with apps, devices, social media, wearables and the Internet of Things. Concurrent with this trend is the widespread adoption of BYOD (Bring Your Own...
View ArticleUnlocking Full Benefits of Internet of Things for Healthcare
Estimates of the number of IoT (Internet of Things) project 1.9 billion devices today growing to 9 billion by 2018. Already, healthcare has made major strides into the Internet of Things with a myriad...
View ArticleEmpowering Healthcare Workers with Information Power Tools
Healthcare workers are being empowered with more and more information power tools, from apps, to smartphones, tablets and other devices, to social media, and now wearables and Internet of Things....
View ArticleIs Your Healthcare Privacy and Security Training Ineffective?
Healthcare workers are being empowered with more and more information power tools including apps, smartphones, tablets, social media, wearables and Internet of Things. These tools are fast evolving...
View Article6 Steps to Taking Control of Your Privacy with Health and Wellness Apps
In a previous blog, I highlighted the increasing empowerment of end users, whether healthcare workers or patients, with information power tools, delivering powerful new capabilities, but also new...
View ArticleHealthcare Workarounds: Managing Risk in the Age of User Empowerment
Several research studies, most recently Curbing Healthcare Workarounds for Coworker Collaboration, show that healthcare workers are increasingly using workarounds or procedures out of compliance with...
View ArticleHow to Understand What Sensitive Health Data You Have
With increasing variety, volume and velocity of sensitive patient data, healthcare organizations are increasingly challenged with compliance with regulations and data protection laws, and avoiding...
View ArticleIs Your Healthcare Security Friendly?
As recently as 10 years ago, healthcare IT was mostly corporate provisioned, less diverse and there were slower refresh rates. Up to this point, usability was treated as a “nice to have” and...
View ArticleHow Security Doesn't Always Mean a Trade-Off for Usability in Healthcare
A consequence of the unprecedented rate of advances in technology has brought the topic of usability of devices in the workplace to the fore. Usability used to be a 'nice to have' but with experiences...
View ArticlePodcast: Talking Data Security and Privacy in Healthcare
I recently spoke to the Apps Alliance, a non-profit global membership organization that supports developers as creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs, on the latest trends in healthcare security. It...
View ArticleBring Your Own Device: A Series Focus on EMEA
Today I begin a series of blogs which take an in-depth look at the issues surrounding what is commonly known as ‘Bring Your Own Device’, with a focus on the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector in EMEA....
View ArticleBring Your Own Device in EMEA – Part 2 – Finding the Balance
In my second blog focusing on Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in EMEA I’ll be taking a look at the positives and negatives of introducing a BYOD culture into a healthcare organisation. All too often we...
View ArticleBring Your Own Device in EMEA – Part 3 – It’s Not Just About Devices
I like to think of security as a chain, and like any other chain it is only as strong as its weakest link. In the case of security in healthcare the chain consists of the network, the server and the...
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