Researchers have found that infections from Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that causes diarrhea and more serious intestinal conditions such as colitis, can pass from patient to patient after sharing the same hospital bed.

St. Joseph Health (SJH) will be paying a $2.14 million settlement for potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules.

St. Jude Medical, a medical device maker in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is taking action to prevent cyber-threats from attacking the company.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – (October 12, 2016) – Zotec Partners (Zotec), an industry leader in revenue cycle and practice management services for hospital-based physician groups and health systems, is pleased to announce it has achieved SOC-2 Security certification. The SOC-2 certification is established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in accordance with the SSAE 16 professional standards, and it focuses on a business's controls related to the security, availability, integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of information and systems.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a guide on HIPAA and cloud computing in an effort to improve the security of patient information.

The personal information of 6,700 physicians and nurses overseen by the U.S. Surgeon General may have been compromised. 

Hackers are best known for stealing patient data through computers, but they may have added an entirely new avenue to encroach on your privacy—by infiltrating medical devices.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) has announced the seventh annual Clinical Investigator Training Course, in partnership with the University of Maryland's Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation, will be held Nov. 7-9 for healthcare professionals around the world.