Whether you work with only a few vendors, hundreds, or thousands, your network is only as safe as the security practices of your weakest partner.

I recently sat down with Joshua Wilda, VP of Information Technology at Metro Health: University of Michigan Health, a 208-bed teaching hospital in western Michigan, to discuss virtualization.

Solutions that enable healthcare to ACT through fast access to patient information, secure communications, and positive patient identification help care providers to balance security and convenience

The healthcare industry is undoubtedly facing serious security challenges. As evidence, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that more than 110 million patient health records were compromised in 2015. In addition, more than 80 percent of healthcare organizations fell victim to a cyberattack that compromised patient health records between 2014-2015. Given these circumstances, the need for effective two-factor authentication among healthcare organizations has never been more urgent.

Orlando, FL/HIMSS Booth #747–February 21, 2017—Imprivata®, the healthcare IT security company, today announced that it has expanded Imprivata PatientSecure®, the leading positive patient identification platform for healthcare, to include broad technology integrations and adoption processes that help hospitals address the patient misidentification crisis.

Integrated solution gives thousands of hospitals and medical facilities a single patient identifier for fast, secure self-service patient check-in