Privacy & Security
In this episode of HIT Cybersecurity, attorney Wynter Deagle, partner at Troutman Pepper, discusses what health systems should be thinking about in terms of incident response, cyber insurance and other compliance questions.
The cyber risk platform Black Kite released a new report this week finding that one in 10 global pharmaceutical manufacturers are at a high risk of suffering a ransomware attack.
Rita Bowen, vice president of privacy, compliance and HIM policy at MRO, discusses how the changes could affect healthcare provider organizations.
Meanwhile, Ireland's national health service is continuing to grapple with outages of its own following a ransomware incident.
HIMSS21
Attendees, exhibitors, speakers and staff will need to verify that they're fully vaccinated to gain entry to the HIMSS21 campus in Las Vegas. HIMSS will offer more guidance soon on proof and validation, including potential digital apps.
Cybersecurity expert Thanos Drougkas explains how COVID-19 has changed the threat landscape around smart hospitals - and how administrators should respond to potential attacks.
Ireland’s health service IT system has been shut down as a precautionary measure, following a cyber attack today.
This week's top stories include a ransomware attack affecting multiple healthcare providers, insurers' concerns that telehealth reimbursement parity may lead to overutilization, and the FDA greenlighting Bigfoot's diabetes management system.
Keys to modernization include a shift from a hardware-centric architecture to a more software-defined model and extending data to the cloud while focusing on security, says Aamir Siddiqi, VMware's director of Healthcare End User Computing.
New working realities require new frameworks, and for edge computing that's SASE. Aruba Networks' Samuel Hill breaks it all down.