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Transforming legacy systems and breaking down data silos after mergers and acquisitions can usher in more personalized and secure care, explains Janice Reese, advisory member of the HSCC Cybersecurity Working Group.
According to the Dubai Health Authority's Osama El-Hassan, GCC countries recognised a need to upskill existing healthcare professionals to create a local digital health workforce.
Taking care to address the challenges of securing remote patient monitoring devices will help mitigate the cybersecurity risks of hospital-at-home care, says Kevin Littlefield, principal, cybersecurity at MITRE.
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Consolidate a hospital's image repositories into one central archive to make data accessible to patient EMRs and researchers (while also streamlining admin and security), recommends Chris Brice, EMEA healthcare director at Hyland.
A health system culture that takes patient privacy and cybersecurity seriously starts from the top down, says Renee Broadbent, CIO and information security officer at SoNE Healthcare.
The federal tools and public-private partnerships aim to help the healthcare industry manage an array of cyberattack risks, says Erik Decker, CISO at Intermountain Health.
Healthcare organizations need to prepare for cyberattacks – and communicate honestly and promptly about security events with staff and patients when they occur, says Dr. Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics at Kaiser Permanente.
There are cybersecurity risks posed by smart medical devices, but most people would not be a target of such attacks, said Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
The next goal on the UAE's pioneering digital health journey is to promote prevention and happiness by engaging patients with the HIE, explains Dr Mohammad Al Redha, director of health informatics and smart health at the Dubai Health Authority.
Collaboration among health systems, vendors and regulators is critical to help guide the development and use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, says Dr. Brian Anderson, chief digital health physician at MITRE.
