Privacy & Security

The machine learning tool, which helps to extract data from scanned documents, joins six other AI tools that are HIPAA-eligible: Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Polly, Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Rekognition.

A cybersecurity expert explains the bill, and offers advice on how CIOs and CISOs can overcome some of the challenges it presents.

Ransomware and denial-of-service attacks make headlines when it comes to hospital cybersecurity, but internal cultural and technological vulnerabilities are often more to blame for an ongoing cycle of healthcare data breaches. 

The health system, which had been forced to shift operations into manual mode, using paper copies in place of digital records, purchased a decryption key from the hackers for an undisclosed sum.

Deep Dive: The final installment of the four-part series on cybersecurity offers practical advice on preventing attacks and mitigating their fallout.

Despite the severity and wide-ranging nature of the attack, so far there has been no indication hackers have been able to access personal patient information, said Victoria's Department of Premier and Cabinet.

The company this week revealed that its Expanse platform will be made available via Google Cloud. In another announcement, it said it will now support Health Records for iPhone.

Cybersecurity is at least as much about behaviour as it is about technology.

If exploited by a remote attacker, the set of vulnerabilities could pose safety and security risks for connected medical devices and hospital networks.

Deep Dive: The third video of this four-part series on cybersecurity explores why healthcare organizations need to be aware of the data and network risks that can be introduced by business partners.