A new sentinel event alert from the Joint Commission said healthcare workers and organizations need to do better on reporting and preventing workplace violence.
In today’s world, the Internet of Things (IoT) is ubiquitous and holds great potential, but also brings security concerns. While IoT devices are being used across industries, the healthcare industry’s experiences with insecure devices provide valuable lessons to heed.
A local hospital system that serves more than 365,000 patients per year was facing challenges with its current security program. As one of the largest hospitals in the region with more than 4,200 employees, the hospital’s leadership team wanted to ensure that the thousands of staff, patients and visitors could enter the hospital knowing it was safely secured.
The risk of data breaches at U.S. hospitals is greater at larger facilities and hospitals that have a major teaching mission, according to a study by a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.
Sexual assaults, a life-altering concussion, shattered faces, fractured bones, and brain injury are some of the workplace violence injuries sustained by Ontario health care staff.
Denver Health is an integrated healthcare organization in Colorado, serving approximately 150,000 individuals in the Denver area. Eric Smith, Director of Security Services, has been working to reframe the enterprise’s security department as a business-enabling function instead of a quick fix.
Hospitals in the UK are to be given £21 million to improve data and cybersecurity, taking the current level of government investment in this area to over £50 million. The £21 million cash injection follows a review into hospital cybersecurity, and it will be directed to the UK’s 27 major trauma centers including those that dealt with the aftermaths of recent terrorist attacks in Manchester and London.
The Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security approved a new law that would force health care facilities to take more action in preventing workplace violence.
According to the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS) Foundation's 2017 Healthcare Crime Survey, workplace violence continues to plague US hospitals.
The risk of data breaches at U.S. hospitals is greater at larger facilities and hospitals that have a major teaching mission, according to a study led by a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.