Privacy & Security
Hospital heads in Taiwan and South Korea share tips on enabling data exchange and dealing with vendors for data integration.
The EHR giant insisted a newly released Carequality resolution shows it did not treat Particle Health any differently in reviewing its connections under HIPAA, even as the data exchange and analytics provider expresses vindication.
Most health systems experienced a cyberattack in the last year, the new Ponemon Institute report shows, with 69% of victims citing poor patient outcomes. Business-email compromise and ransomware were reported to be the biggest culprits in care impacts.
After a federal court ruled that healthcare organizations sharing individual IP addresses with third parties did not constitute a HIPAA breach, legal ambiguity remains, says one privacy expert.
David Lang will focus on the Department of Health and Aged Care's ongoing cybersecurity upgrade.
Government and industry cyber pros aren't always confident in their organizations' abilities to recover from cyberattacks, two recent surveys suggest. They say underfunded security budgets are causing vulnerabilities in the face of pervasive threats.
With large ransomware breaches up more than 260% since 2018, "the health care sector needs to get serious about cybersecurity and complying with HIPAA," says the director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
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While there's been progress across government and industry, the agency said the new technology strategy emphasizes health equity, public health, AI and cybersecurity to better connect the health system with health data "for all health IT users."
It's already happening: CFOs are getting Teams calls from their "CEO" asking for reports on financial transactions, says ChristianaCare CISO Anahi Santiago ahead of her appearance at the 2024 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum.
