Privacy & Security
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Encryption technology used in elections can potentially improve an AI model's predictive capability without compromising patient data privacy.
Patients can now release all their electronic health data to apps of their choice through TEFCA's record location services, and understand if the data exchange they authorize is protected under HIPAA.
Tony Lauro, Akamai's security tech and strategy director, explains multi-factor authentication challenges, how cyber actors gain unauthorized tokens and why artificial intelligence may allow undetected interaction with healthcare APIs.
OneBlood has been hit by ransomware, resulting in a massive disruption to patient care. AHA urges health systems and hospitals nationwide to review contingency plans for blood supplies.
The freely-downloadable tool, called Dioptra, is designed to help artificial intelligence developers understand some unique data risks with AI models, and help them "mitigate those risks while supporting innovation," says NIST's director.
HIMSS24's Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum showed the need for vendor partners to help healthcare organizations understand and implement the NIST 2.0 framework. Jeff Webber, CTO at Intelliguard, explains.
Several factors combined to hit healthcare hardest again this year, but new research by the Ponemon Institute and IBM Security also found that using artificial intelligence in security reduced attacks' severity in terms of cost and recovery time.
The recent CrowdStrike outage might have made the issue top of mind for many hospitals IT and security leaders. But it's important to remember that controls don’t fail in just major events – they're always at risk.
The HSA company says it has discovered "unauthorized access to and potential disclosure of protected health information and/or personally identifiable information stored in an unstructured data repository outside our core systems."