Is cyber security and mobile device management important in the healthcare industry?
Is cyber security and mobile device management important in the healthcare industry? Healthcare and technology go hand in glove more than almost any other sector in today’s business world. This statement is true today and will remain so into the future. Patient records form just one element of the vast mountain of data that is stored and […]
The facts of life for HIPAA business associates
If you are a biomed vendor and you collect any kind of PHI (protected health information) in your medical device or store information in the cloud (including public cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox) you need to be aware of US healthcare information privacy regulation. As a medical device vendor selling to healthcare providers, hospitals, physicians and […]
Bionic M2M: Are Skin-mounted M2M devices – the future of eHealth?
In the popular American TV series that aired on ABC in the 70s, Steve Austin is the “Six million Dollar Man”, a former astronaut with bionic implants. The show and its spinoff, The Bionic Woman (Lindsay Wagner playing a former tennis player who was rebuilt with bionic parts similar to Austin after a parachuting accident) […]
Debugging security
There is an interesting analogy between between debugging software and debugging the security of your systems. As Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike wrote in “The Practice of Programming” As personal choice, we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a stack trace or the value of a variable or two. One reason is that it is […]
Treat passwords like cash
How much personal technology do you carry around when you travel? Do you use one of those carry-on bags with your notebook computer on top of the carry-on? A friend who is a commercial pilot had his bag swiped literally behind his back while waiting on line to check-in to a 4 star Paris hotel. […]
Clinical trials in the cloud
Ben Baumann from Akaza and Open Clinica fame, recently blogged about clinical trials in the cloud. Ben is pitching the relatively new offering from Akaza called Open Clinica Optimized hosting that offers quick startup using validated Open Clinica instances and resources on-demand on a SAS-70 compliant platform. As Ben noted that in the clinical research field, […]
Insecurity by compliance
If a little compliance creates a false sense of security then a lot of compliance regulation creates an atmosphere of feeling secure, while in fact most businesses and Web services are in fact very insecure. Is a free market democracy doomed to suffer from privacy breaches – by definition? My father is a retired PhD […]
How to reduce risk of a data breach
Historical data in log files has little intrinsic value in the here-and-now process of event response and mediation and compliance check lists have little direct value in protecting customers. Software Associates specializes in helping medical device and healthcare vendors achieve HIPAA compliance and improve the data and software security of their products in hospital and […]
The political power of social media
Clay Shirky writes on Foreign Affairs this week Arguing for the right of people to use the Internet freely is an appropriate policy for the United States, both because it aligns with the strategic goal of strengthening civil society worldwide and because it resonates with American beliefs about freedom of expression By switching from an […]
Disaster recovery planning
This article describes a plan and implementation process for disaster recovery planning. The secret to success in our experience is to involve the local response team from the outset of the project. Copyright 2006 D.Lieberman. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License The disaster recovery plan is designed to assist companies in […]
