Cloud Security
Cloud security provides robust protection for sensitive patient data stored and processed in the cloud. As healthcare organizations increasingly adopt cloud-based solutions, implementing robust security measures is crucial to safeguard against data breaches, cyberattacks, and unauthorized access.
Cloud security enhances collaboration among healthcare providers by allowing secure sharing of patient information across networks, which is essential for coordinated care. To know more, read our Cloud Security special issue.
How the Cloud is Transforming Healthcare
By Tsvi Gal, VP, Enterprise Technology Services and Atti Riazi, SVP & CIO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Healthcare brings unique challenges to technology adoption. The data representing people, diseases, and medicine is complex and voluminous. Consumers and providers of ...
Smart and Secure PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) on Clouds
By Synho Do, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory of Medical Imaging and Computation, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School With the digitization of healthcare comes the discovery of newly developed areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) ...
Developing a Cloud Security Strategy
By Shefali Mookencherry, MPH, MSMIS, RHIA, CHPS, HCISPP, CISO, Edward-Elmhurst Health The mitigation of security risks in cloud computing is a challenge to many healthcare organizations. As organizations move to the cloud more frequently, cloud security is a major concern ...
Active Cyber Defenses for Third Party Risk Management
By John Keenan, Director, IS e-Security, Memorial Hospital at Gulfport Actions that disrupt business or governmental operations in the cyber domain have often been referred to as cyber warfare, and more recently, as cybercrime. As a result, the program that ...
The Cyber Maginot Line
By Chris Baldwin, System Director (CISO), Hartford Healthcare Maya Angelou, a noted civil rights activist, once said, “hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and be unsurprised by anything in between.” This is useful thinking in support of effective ...
Lacework Cloud Security & Compliance For Health Tech Companies
The COVID-19 pandemic forced a global reset for most organizations in regards to shifting their operations over to a fully remote-working culture. This new wave of change resulted in the rapid adoption of software as a service (SaaS) applications that ...
How a California county health system took a quantum leap in disaster preparedness and business continuity through the use of hybrid cloud and network fabric technologies?
By Amanpreet Kaur, Information System Analyst IV, San Joaquin General Hospital and Mark Thomas, CIO, San Joaquin General Hospital Introduction Until 2018, San Joaquin General Hospital and County Clinics had a relatively immature digital infrastructure. Its core healthcare processes were ...