Quality and Safety
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced this week that it had expanded the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative to include several Industrial Control Systems experts.
Although Hive has only been operational since June 2021, it has reportedly breached hundreds of organizations.
According to a notice published in March, an unknown party accessed the respiratory care provider's systems in July 2021, affecting the information of more than 300,000 people.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released information detailing who should report incidents and what should be included.
Rep. Matt Rosendale asked agency and vendor leadership to put in place a "true" bidirectional interface, calling it "the single greatest technical problem with the Cerner EHR."
Ascertain, funded to the tune of $100 million, will develop machine learning and predictive analytics tools to help solve "quality, equity and cost problems."
The agency is seeking stakeholder feedback on the guidance, which seeks to clearly outline its recommendations for premarket submission content when it comes to cybersecurity concerns.
"They have already compromised healthcare organizations and have no reason to stop," said the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center about the group known as Lapsus$.
Clinicians at dozens of Defense Department, Coast Guard and Veterans Affairs sites were unable to update medical records for hours this past Wednesday.
Mount Sinai Health System’s VP of clinical innovation and chief nursing informatics officer Robert Freeman discusses how AI can help keep patients safer and support frontline teams.