California Sen. Alex Padilla has introduced a bill that would require hospitals to establish workplace violence prevention plans.

When the security team at Palmetto Health Baptist, an acute care Medical Center in Columbia, S.C., invested in an upgrade to their surveillance cameras from black-and-white to color, they did so with the expectation that it would significantly improve the quality of video they were capturing.

A woman in Merced, Calif., has been arrested on trespassing charges after she and an unnamed man allegedly twice tried sneaking into a hospital maternity ward using dolls as decoys.

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) and the Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security Consortium (MDISS) announced the availability of new resources to help address the growing security concerns about network-connected medical devices.

Approximately 11,370 healthcare and social assistance workers were the victims of workplace violence assaults in 2010 – a 13-percent increase over such assaults in 2009, and many more incidents likely go unreported, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Over the past three years, most healthcare data breaches were the result of lost or stolen devices, not hacking (only 23 percent).