Privacy & Security

The company has been lobbying hospital leaders to oppose them – and has said it might sue HHS, depending on the final rules' data provisions. Meanwhile, some patient advocates are also speaking out.

Dr Saif Abed, director of cybersecurity advisory services at AbedGraham, says it's high time suppliers invested in people and processes.

Ransomware, coupled with an expanded attack surface thanks to a proliferation of internet-connected medical devices, are among the top security concerns health players should be concerned about in 2020.

The communication says vulnerabilities in Clinical Information Central Stations and Telemetry Servers "might allow an attack to happen undetected and without user interaction."

We have to rethink the controls, technology and tools we use and then scale into workflows to optimize for accuracy, says Michael Coates, co-founder and CEO of Altitude Networks.

There are certain features and offerings that third-party vendors need to have to minimize risk, according to Jigar Kadakia, chief information security and privacy officer at Partners HealthCare, and Ed Gaudet, CEO at Censinet.

An expert at AI-based cloud fax tech vendor Concord Technologies offers his look ahead at the year – focusing on AI, cybersecurity and interoperability.

At HIMSS20, they'll show how RPM introduces new security risks outside the walls of the hospital – and show how controls can be implemented to help safeguard patients’ privacy as they're cared for in the home.

The company is focused on "infrastructure the Epic community uses today and is likely to use in the future," according to a statement received by CNBC.

ADHA has been working with industry and governments over a number of years to achieve interoperable secure messaging across different systems.