Privacy & Security
Before the COVID-19 pandemic began to ripple across the world, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center had only used telehealth in a limited capacity.
Teladoc Health, IBM, Epic and athenahealth all signed on to support the proposed legislation.
Implementing a framework can be useful, but it requires resources – and healthcare organizations may face challenges gaining consensus over which ones to deploy, said a compliance expert ahead of HIMSS22.
The incident, which took place in August, exposed the information of about 22,000 individuals.
A healthcare cybersecurity expert discusses how IT buyers can put financial pressure on device manufacturers to help drive a higher level of security for their fleets.
As risk levels increase, health systems have "significant challenges to overcome," according to the 13th annual report – including suboptimal security spending, vulnerable legacy tech and weak-link human factors.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' cybersecurity arm said this week that the operation has not claimed a victim since last October.
While compliance-based frameworks are not without merit, it is important that they be viewed as minimum acceptable standards and not as end goals.
Health-ISAC chief security officer Errol Weiss discusses ransomware and risks to the healthcare industry this year, including spear phishing and third-party breaches.
In a preview of her HIMSS22 session, Tamra Durfee explains the importance of securing medical devices from a patient safety perspective and outlines key first steps for getting started.