cyber security

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31 May 2016

White hack exposes risk posed by connected devices

An ethical hack by an IT security provider of a private health clinic’s IT system has highlighted the vulnerability of
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31 May 2016

Davey Winder: securing the Internet of Medical Things

The Internet of Things is an exciting prospect for healthcare; but when everything from transfusion pumps to home testing kits
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23 May 2016

NHS urged to take security steps ahead of Caldicott report

NHS organisations have been urged to appoint a senior information risk owner alongside a Caldicott Guardian – and to make
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17 May 2016

Dan Taylor: taking security out of the bunker

The head of the Health and Social Care Centre’s security operations may work in a super secure area, but in
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11 May 2016

Stand and deliver: ransomware in healthcare

Cyber security has been rising up the agenda of US health CIOs for some years; but nothing has concentrated their
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5 May 2016

Cyber security is critical to the future of the NHS

Jon Hoeksma explains why Digital Health News has launched a Cyber Security Hub; and why the NHS needs to wake
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3 May 2016

Davey Winder: hacking healthcare

Security journalist Davey Winder starts a new series of columns on Digital Health’s Cyber Security Hub by asking: what is
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8 March 2016

Letter from HIMSS16

Dr Shaun O’Hanlon, the chief medical officer of Emis Group, was in Las Vegas last week for HIMSS16. In this
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8 March 2016

Enter the CCG: on IG, security, and the fear of being shot

Dr John Lockley chaired a conference on the vexed and difficult questions of information governance and cyber-security; and found that
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3 February 2016

Enter the CCG: on the snail at the backdoor

John Lockley worries that the NHS is going down the line of centralised, expensive ‘solutions’ to cybercrime, when what it
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