Privacy & Security
Sharp Community Medical Group and Sharp Healthcare confirmed that patient data was compromised in an attack on the business association earlier this year and the company is sending breach notification letters to its patients.
Proposals would require Veterans Affairs to contractually prohibit the sale of patient information and report on electronic health record workflow benchmarks, quality metrics and resources provided to VA facilities ahead of new installations.
After SimpleHelp disclosed a security vulnerability in its remote monitoring and management tool earlier this year, threat actors are gaining access to U.S. networks and exploiting the flaw to steal data before shutting down operational systems.
Small providers struggle for survival, and security risks only exacerbate the challenge. But by sharing technologies and making use of resources like virtual CISOs, some hospitals are staying ahead of their biggest closure risks.
What began as an ONC initiative now independently supports a secure EHR-based communication network and accredits health technology, explains Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, DirectTrust's chief strategy officer.
Cybersecurity In Focus
The payoff behind artificial intelligence, the expertise of virtual CISOs and the tactics of successful device management – Peyman Zand, chief strategy officer at healthcare consulting firm CereCore, spells out the benefits and the challenges.
The physician and software engineer will hold dual titles as Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
M42's Dr. Maaz Shaikh says the company's open-source Med42 LLM, trained on public rather than patient data, can be deployed for multiple use cases and is compliant with many global security standards.
The adoption model's requirements help ensure that health systems' infrastructure is optimized to support advanced cybersecurity and analytics capabilities, says HIMSS digital health strategist Philip Bradley.
HHS Office for Civil Rights says a malicious insider exploited a vulnerability at BayCare Health System that offered "unrestricted access to patient health information."