Government & Policy

Governments need to develop and fund enterprise architecture to solve major health issues like homelessness, according to Gabriel Seidman, director of policy at Ellison Institute of Technology, and his colleagues.  

Federal agencies confirm, in the wake of the Change Healthcare cyberattack, that healthcare organizations have been targeted since the DOJ announced the seizure of the cyberterror gang's infrastructure in December.

Developed over eighteen months by the Cybersecurity Working Group and government partners, the plan is a five-year health industry roadmap for addressing frequent and sophisticated cyber incidents aimed at the sector.

With the European Health Data Space and its associated legislation progressing at pace, HIMSS is working to promote the topic of EU interoperability to a wider audience – starting with its Rome conference in May.

Billed as the first major overhaul in a decade for the National Institute of Standards and Technology's foundational risk management approach, CSF 2.0 has new resources to help organizations better position themselves to mitigate cyber threats.

It emphasises strong digital health literacy among consumers and carers as well as having secure connected digital solutions.

With 80% of nationwide prescribers utilizing e-prescribing in their practice, some US states are beginning to require the same level of e-prescribing compliance for non-controlled prescriptions to further mitigate the risk of errors and potential penalties.

The watchdog agency has reached an agreement with a behavioral health practice for potential HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule violations leading up to and at the time of the 2019 breach.

The government agencies announced that they seized numerous LockBit websites and control of servers used by the ransomware's administrators, disrupting the ability of threat actors to encrypt networks and extort victims.