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Oklahoma Sen. Weaver Files Bill to Address Workplace Violence in Healthcare

January 14, 2020

Oklahoma Sen. Weaver, R-Moore has authored Senate Bill 1290, the Medical Care Provider Protection Act, to protect medical professionals.

Proposed Bill Would Remove Surnames from Medical Staff ID Badges

January 13, 2020

Pennsylvania House Bill 1880 would remove the requirement that nurses and other medical staff must have their last name on their ID badges.

Eric Clay: Addressing Healthcare Security Challenges

How does Eric Clay, System Director of Public Safety for CoxHealth, address common healthcare security challenges, and what initiatives has he taken to improve the safety of staff and patients?

Maria Henriquez

January 3, 2020

Providing a safe and secure environment where clinical staff can focus on administering excellent patient care requires the CoxHealth Public Safety team to address all challenges head-on. How does Eric Clay, System Director of Public Safety, provide a safe and secure environment?

Unprepared Companies Vulnerable to Ransomware Attacks

Canadian Lab Test Firm LifeLabs Pays Ransom After Data Breach

December 26, 2019

LifeLabs recently identified a cyberattack that involved unauthorized access to their computer systems that possibly impacts 15 million people.

Legislation Introduced to Provide Affordable Housing for First Responders and Firefighters

December 16, 2019

U.S. Senators Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Jon Tester (D-MT) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) \introduced bipartisan legislation to provide affordable housing opportunities for volunteer firefighters and first responders.

Justice Department Awards More than $333 Million to Fight Opioid Crisis

December 16, 2019

The Department of Justice announced awards of more than $333 million to help communities affected by the opioid crisis.

The Top 12 Data Breaches of 2019

Maria Henriquez

December 5, 2019

Just in 2018, there were 500 million personal records stolen. How many records will be stolen by year’s end? According to the RiskBased Data Breach QuickView Report 2019 Q3, at the end of September, there were 5,183 breaches, exposing 7.9 billion records. Compared to the 2018 Q3 report, the total number of breaches was up 33.3 percent and the total number of records exposed more than doubled, up 112 percent.

House Passes Workplace Violence Bill

November 26, 2019

The House of Representatives passed legislation to require hospitals and other healthcare employers to take specific steps to prevent workplace violence against staff and patients.

Tackling the “Shock and Awe” of Medical Device Security One Step at a Time

Cheryl L. Serra

November 26, 2019

There is a healthy fear within the cybersecurity community that hackers can exploit security vulnerabilities in medical devices with relative ease, thereby endangering patients and putting a healthcare organization’s data assets at serious risk.

Study Shows Hours When Security Officers are Most Often Attacked

November 11, 2019

Using statistics from news reports, law enforcement incident reports, private agency injury reports, US workplace violence data and our own in-house database curated and analyzed during the past sixteen years, Private Officer National has mapped out the hours and days that an officer is most likely to be harmed.

LIVE: September 24, 2026 at 2 PM EDT Security and compliance reviews of physical security devices tend to fail for the same reasons. Learn the gaps that trip up these reviews, and why they're getting harder to ignore as scrutiny on connected devices increase.

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Oklahoma Sen. Weaver Files Bill to Address Workplace Violence in Healthcare

Proposed Bill Would Remove Surnames from Medical Staff ID Badges

Eric Clay: Addressing Healthcare Security Challenges

Canadian Lab Test Firm LifeLabs Pays Ransom After Data Breach

Legislation Introduced to Provide Affordable Housing for First Responders and Firefighters

Justice Department Awards More than $333 Million to Fight Opioid Crisis

The Top 12 Data Breaches of 2019

House Passes Workplace Violence Bill

Tackling the “Shock and Awe” of Medical Device Security One Step at a Time

Study Shows Hours When Security Officers are Most Often Attacked

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