Privacy & Security

Ahmed Elhusseiny, Area Head, Asia Pacific at Roche Pharma shares his vision for how data-driven healthcare can transform patient outcomes in the region.

Wolfgang Mertz, CTO for Unstructured Data Solutions, says Dell Technologies is helping healthcare providers consolidate data – which enables easy access to precision medicine and supports cyber protection strategies.

How healthcare organizations can protect themselves.

The frequency of cyberattacks on hospitals and health systems more than doubled from 2016 to 2021, say researchers, and the incidents have exposed the protected health information of nearly 42 million patients.

A private health services organization said it was the victim of a ransomware attack that may have exposed sensitive health and insurance information to an unauthorized individual.

The social media giant says it will appeal the European Union's decision that Meta Platforms violated GDPR. We asked one privacy lawyer whether the decision might penetrate the company's reliance on contractual necessity in the U.S.

In a statement about its attack on Toronto-based SickKids, the cybercrime affiliate also offered a decryptor. Healthcare cybersecurity experts question whether the move was ethically motivated, or meant to enhance LockBit's recruitment image.

Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet, says collaboration is key as organized crime shakes down healthcare – resulting in dangerous diversions of care, patient data compromise and loss of resources.

KLAS Research and Censinet analysts seek to align healthcare cybersecurity collaboration with a new benchmarking study for 2023.

Anita Allen, professor of law and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, says "data sharing is the new health ethic," in a preview of her keynote address at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum.