Privacy & Security

Abstract graphic of a lock over data
By Mike Miliard 10:30 am October 11, 2023
The risk management and certification group says the program, touted as the first of its kind, aims to offer a CSF-based strategy to deploy trustworthy models.
NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston
By Andrea Fox 10:34 am October 09, 2023
The software services provider to nonprofits announced it has agreed to pay 49 states and the District of Columbia this month to resolve investigations into a 2020 cyber hack and into misleading data breach statements made to patients and consumers.
Stethoscope resting on tablet
By Mike Miliard 01:42 am October 06, 2023
MorganFranklin Consulting’s Ferdinand Hamada and Matt DeFrain offer their perspectives on the current threat environment and how health systems can build better cybersecurity resilience and business continuity strategies.
Hands holding smartphone
By Andrea Fox 10:28 am October 03, 2023
The American Hospital Association says new regs from the HHS Office for Civil Rights clash with HIPAA, contradict interoperability efforts and are "flawed as a matter of law and harmful as a matter of policy."
Representatives from both the Hospital Authority and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks during the agreement signing for launching the HKSTP HA Data Collaboration Lab
By Adam Ang 03:05 am October 02, 2023
It is launching a data collaboration lab with Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks.
A computer programmer coding in a desktop computer
By Adam Ang 04:11 am September 29, 2023
Also, South Korea takes a further step to enable health data interoperability.
Hand on a keyboard
By Andrea Fox 09:26 am September 28, 2023
The company sent patients data breach notifications explaining that names, Social Security numbers and PHI may have been compromised as part of a global cyber campaign that has snared more than 2,000 organizations to date.
Andrew Pearce, VP Analytics and Global Advisory Lead, HIMSS; Veneeth Purushotaman, CIO, Aster DM Healthcare; Dr Tamara Sunbul, Medical Director of Clinical Informatics, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare; and Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, CIO, Karkinos Healthcare
By Adam Ang 11:13 pm September 24, 2023
Health CIOs shared outcomes, considerations, and success factors in implementing new technologies to advance care.
Hands typing on a laptop showing code only
By Andrea Fox 11:32 am September 21, 2023
The North Korean state-sponsored actor known for Ryuk ransomware is deploying two new remote access trojans to target hospitals and health systems through a critical vulnerability affecting 24 products.
A clinician works in an EHR on a hospital floor.
By Andrea Fox 11:26 am September 21, 2023
Joint governance, audit monitoring and effective communication can help win patient trust, even in a fraught cybersecurity landscape where health systems are targeted for their patient data, says a Kaiser Permanente informatics leader.