Many healthcare centers in the US are having a security standoff, and much of it is due to doctors, nurses, and other staff using personal devices – none of which are HIPAA-compliant – to discuss patient information. Theft of these personal devices accounted for 66% of data breaches in one study, while another found that […]
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Several organizations have a migration to microservices planned as long term goal. But how will you know when it’s finally time to make the switch? You know it’s worth the investment, you’ve even got some of management on board, but it’s a huge undertaking and you haven’t yet broken ground. There are so many patches,
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Healthcare CIOs face a new suite of challenges as their role evolves. As Mark Gilbert, research director for digital health at Gartner recently noted, healthcare CIOs are now being asked to support corporate growth and M&A activities, all while playing catch up to digitize their businesses (an activity that remains at a low stage of
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In 2017, we saw both an increase in public cloud adoption as well as a rise in media attention to security breaches. The good news is, GCP is leading the way in cloud security. While leading cloud providers boast relatively clean security records and impressive uptime, the public’s hyperfocus on application security will drive cloud
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Over the past decade, HIPAA compliance in the cloud and the mere mention of moving Protected Health Information (PHI) to the cloud would cause IT directors at healthcare organizations to break into a cold sweat. Even after reputable cloud IaaS providers like Google announced their HIPAA compliance in 2014, the initial attitude shift was marginal at
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