Privacy & Security

Its private operator has sought a court injunction to help protect the information of possibly affected patients.

Required patches for HIPAA-compliant routers and gateways address a critical vulnerability affecting more than a dozen models. The two-part flaw opens a door to unauthenticated remote command executions.

Beyond just testing software, red team exercises reveal critical operational gaps. They allow hospitals to build and test emergency procedures in controlled environments before a life-threatening breach occurs.

What makes the New Zealand case worth following is what the investigations are actually testing: Are health systems truly designed to protect highly sensitive information?

Healthcare IT security expert Danielle Morrison explains how IT outage recovery, downtime and disruption costs some independent and senior care providers "tens of thousands of dollars per minute" and compromises patient safety and care quality.

Erik Decker, chief information security officer at Intermountain Health discusses the Sector Mapping and Risk Management Toolkit (SMART), which he'll demonstrate at HIMSS26 as a means to help manage systemic risk.

Amid the compromise of millions of healthcare records in recent years, healthcare organizations that fail to modernize identity verification risk financial losses, reputational damage and disruption to clinical operations.

Healthcare’s growing digital footprint has made it a top target for cybercriminals using impersonation, SIM swaps and synthetic identities to commit fraud.

The stakes are high and the challenges unrelenting. But just as threats are evolving, so are the skillsets and leadership strategies to mitigate risk, safeguard data and protect patients.

The goal is for passwordless authentication to streamline clinical workflows, strengthen cybersecurity and reduce operational burden, the company said.