Privacy & Security

Agility, flexibility and security are the focus of the latest installment in our COVID-19 era lessons learned feature series, which this time showcases four CIOs, including Mayo Clinic's Cris Ross.

This week's top stories include President Biden allocating funds for pandemic preparedness, expanding affordable care and bolstering cybersecurity; and the PharmaStars accelerator getting pharma and digital health companies on the same page.

In the newest edition of HIT Cybersecurity, Bob Barrett, senior director of security and IT assurance at HIMSS, offers tips and best practices for educating employees and instilling good cyber hygiene practices.

The hospital group has been able to restore over half of its servers since the weekend.

Patients in England have until 23 June to opt out. 

Monthly Update: HIMSS Media's Jonah Comstock recaps some of May's top healthcare stories, including an effort to boost COVID-19 vaccine via texts, alerts and even dating apps; Walmart's acquisition of MeMD; and a malware attack on Scripps.

It would put $6.5 billion toward the creation of an agency tasked with federal research and development geared toward healthcare innovation, and includes a $25 million raise for ONC.

The company points to telehealth and virtual care as areas of vulnerability, and sees ransomware attacks as an ongoing threat.

The Privacy Commission has warned all DHBs to fix security issues within their systems or face prosecution.

Italian digital health stakeholders, including leading CIOs and industry experts, will contribute to a debate around cybersecurity and pandemic recovery as they look to a world beyond COVID-19 at the upcoming HIMSS21 European health conference.