Privacy & Security

The health system will invest $5.5 million in new network security improvements and shell out $2 million for class action claims after the hack exposed the data of 4.5 million patients.

The ultimate goal is patient safety and freeing up money to invest in care.

After a delay to strengthen privacy and security protections, the expansion of the government’s centralised digital medical records system is complete.

Four experts in healthcare cloud computing offer CIOs and other health IT workers who are starting – or maintaining – cloud migrations some well-rounded advice.

With increasing buzz around population health and social determinants of health, those two forces are poised to change philosophies around care delivery and how a hospital or health system works to keep the surrounding community healthy.

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA), a statutory board under the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Singapore, said in a statement on March 15 that one of its vendors, Secur Solutions Group Pte Ltd (SSG), had failed to properly secure a HSA database against access over the Internet.

The industry has some unique challenges to tackle and moving to the cloud often leads to breaches.

A lot of attention is focused on network access security; it can be easy to overlook the vulnerability of data at the edge.

Dame Fiona Caldicott has been appointed as the first statutory national data guardian for health and social care, nearly five years after the role was first created.

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