Privacy & Security

The legislation takes a variety of approaches to beefing up the nation's digital defenses.

"You have to address the people involved in the use of the tool, and more importantly those involved in the processes around medical devices and the tools to monitor and secure them," says one expert in a preview of his HIMSS21 presentation.

This webinar, organised by Philips in collaboration with HIMSS, saw experts discussing the need to identify the cybersecurity gaps in healthcare as more digital data increases vulnerabilities to cybercrime.

Explore the most pressing challenges of the post-COVID landscape, and discover how Hospital Automation technology is the linchpin of an elevated telehealth platform that both patients and clinicians can depend on.

"Healthcare IT leaders need to understand the broad range of technologies at use across a hospital and assess which of these systems and machines they would detect attacks against, and where they would be blind."

The health system's manager of information security previews his upcoming HIMSS21 session, discussing the device ecosystem and best practices to defend it.

In one of the biggest breaches reported to OCR in months, unauthorized parties reportedly accessed files that may have included names, dates of birth and insurance plan member ID numbers, among other information.

Glitch means people can obtain a pass by entering fake test results into the system. 

A survey of nearly 2,000 technology execs found they expected to see a boost in funding for digital infrastructure – as well as a continuation of work-from-home policies. 

The Utah-based health system was the latest to feel the effects of the cyberattack on cancer software vendor Elekta.