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California's New Healthcare Workplace Violence Rule

December 15, 2016

A new rule in California will require hospitals and other health facilities to protect employees from abuse with violence prevention protocols--and the regulation is a model that could spread to other states.

OSHA Considers Federal Healthcare Workplace Violence Standard

December 11, 2016

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is considering a federal standard to prevent workplace violence in healthcare.

IAHSS Announces New Board Members

November 6, 2016

The International Association for Health Security and Safety (IAHSS) announced its new 2017 board members.

Global Leaders Commit to Act on Antimicrobial Resistance

Kylie Bull

November 1, 2016

World leaders have signaled an unprecedented level of attention to curb the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicrobial medicines.

Mike Mandelkorn: Improving Patients' Lives

Sarah Ludwig

November 1, 2016

Providing security services to the 92 facilities that comprise The Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center has Director of Medical Center Security Michael Mandelkorn juggling many balls at one time.

Myron Love: Family-Focused Security

Sarah Ludwig

November 1, 2016

At Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, the pediatric teaching partner of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, being leaders in pediatric medicine, research, treatment, education and advocacy are the pillars of the facility’s mission statement.

76% of North American Public Safety Agencies will have Implemented New 9-1-1 Technologies in 2017

October 13, 2016

Stratus Technologies, Inc., a provider of continuous availability solutions, revealed the results of its fourth annual Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Survey.

Your #1 De-Escalation Technique: Customer Service

The path to ‘zero incidents’ starts with zero excuses.

Claire Meyer

October 1, 2016

Between illnesses, family tension and medical bills, hospitals are already harbors for stress, and nothing escalates a stressful situation into a dangerous one faster and more unnecessarily than poor customer service, says Jim Sawyer, Director of Security Services for Seattle Children’s Hospital.

The Ransomware Dilemma: Is Paying Up a Good Idea?

Sanjay Katkar

September 10, 2016

When it's a choice between maintaining critical, life-saving services or refusing to give in to cyber criminals, healthcare providers face a high-risk, controversial decision when it comes to ransomware demands.

Healthcare Institutions Ramping Up Data Security Prescriptions

Despite sensitivity of data, many have been slower to lock it down than other industries.

Ed Finkel

September 1, 2016

Hospitals and medical centers face a panoply of threats and challenges around data security, yet the healthcare field has not yet responded as quickly as others, according to chief information security officers (CISOs) and others close to such institutions.