An Apathetic Afterthought: The Security Challenge of the Healthcare Industry

An Apathetic Afterthought: The Security Challenge of the Healthcare Industry: The healthcare industry has a long way to go to begin thinking about security proactively and not as an afterthought.

What you are about to read is not from 1995. This is not Throwback Thursday. What follows is an account of the first full day of booth duty at Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2016 conference in sunny Las Vegas.

For those of you who have never heard of HIMSS, (I certainly hadn’t until my boss asked me to attend.) it is a conference for IT in the healthcare industry. There are supposed to be 40,000 people here, and judging by the sheer volume of suits in the streets, I would gather that this is correct.[...]