Data Warehousing

"We have proven we can systematically improve compliance and enable hospitals around the country to report on their COVID-19 data," said TeleTracking President Christopher Johnson.

The AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard aims to help healthcare and other organizations ensure they're aligning with a set of core infosec principles.

Dueling letters published this week in JAMIA take issue with the degree to which public health agencies are able to receive information electronically.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services may follow through on threats to revoke federal Medicare funding for hospitals that don't meet COVID-19 patient data requirements, reported NPR this week.

As many as 80% of CIOs and CISOs polled for a new report say they've experienced a breach originating with a third-party vendor in the past year, while another survey shows 44% of hospitals and health systems fail to meet basic NIST CSF protocols.

The data is said to include patient information release forms, driver's license copies and Social Security numbers, as first reported by BleepingComputer.

A German woman died after Düsseldorf University Clinic's servers were encrypted, which necessitated that she be relocated to a hospital 20 miles away.

Cyber crooks used social engineering and exploited authentication protocols in an attempt to divert payments from its Financial Services Center.

A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center sees "opportunities to leverage a broadly defined set of telehealth tools to reduce healthcare disparities post-pandemic."

Using the Mount Sinai De-Identified COVID-19 database, researchers examined information from more than 52,000 unique patients who sought care between March and May.