Compliance & Legal

Regulatory controls can provide a false sense of security, but there's a way to get ahead of cyber adversaries, said panelists at the HIMSS24 Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum.

AHA says it welcomes the letter urging UHG to step up payments to hospitals, physicians and other providers.

Also: The ALPHV BlackCat ransomware group may have faked a second government takedown, while the extent of the protected-data leak is still unknown.

Gee Mathen, director of pharmacy clinical applications and technical services at Texas Children's Hospital, discusses his upcoming HIMSS24 session "Combating Counterfeit Drugs and the Drug Supply Chain Security Act."  

With the European Health Data Space and its associated legislation progressing at pace, HIMSS is working to promote the topic of EU interoperability to a wider audience – starting with its Rome conference in May.

The watchdog agency has reached an agreement with a behavioral health practice for potential HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule violations leading up to and at the time of the 2019 breach.

Deployed across venture platform 25madison's health tech innovator, the new program establishes baseline target profiles for health tech portfolio companies with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the 405(d) Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices.

UVM lost $30 million in the attack and experienced disruptions to care services that lasted more than two weeks.

Texting of patient orders among members by healthcare teams is now permissible at hospitals and critical access hospitals when done through a HIPAA-compliant secure platform in compliance with CMS Conditions of Participation rules, the agency says.

Healthcare organizations are looking for the proper use of OpenAI, research on LLMs and bias in AI technology. Harjinder Sandhu, CTO of health platforms and solutions at Microsoft, has the answers.