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By Adam Ang | 10:14 pm | August 06, 2024
Encryption technology used in elections can potentially improve an AI model's predictive capability without compromising patient data privacy.
Epic health app HIPAA information
By Andrea Fox | 11:01 am | August 05, 2024
Patients can now release all their electronic health data to apps of their choice through TEFCA's record location services, and understand if the data exchange they authorize is protected under HIPAA.
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By HIMSS TV | 07:00 am | August 05, 2024
Tony Lauro, Akamai's security tech and strategy director, explains multi-factor authentication challenges, how cyber actors gain unauthorized tokens and why artificial intelligence may allow undetected interaction with healthcare APIs.
Blood donation
By Andrea Fox | 01:34 pm | August 02, 2024
OneBlood has been hit by ransomware, resulting in a massive disruption to patient care. AHA urges health systems and hospitals nationwide to review contingency plans for blood supplies.
Clinicians examine data on screens
By Mike Miliard | 05:52 pm | August 01, 2024
The freely-downloadable tool, called Dioptra, is designed to help artificial intelligence developers understand some unique data risks with AI models, and help them "mitigate those risks while supporting innovation," says NIST's director.
Jeff Webber at Intelliguard_Palm trees and skyscrapers in Orlando Photo by Gabriele Maltinti/iStock/Getty Images Plus
By HIMSS TV | 07:00 am | August 01, 2024
HIMSS24's Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum showed the need for vendor partners to help healthcare organizations understand and implement the NIST 2.0 framework. Jeff Webber, CTO at Intelliguard, explains.
A neural network shaped like a brain aimed at network infrastructure
By Andrea Fox | 03:32 pm | July 31, 2024
Several factors combined to hit healthcare hardest again this year, but new research by the Ponemon Institute and IBM Security also found that using artificial intelligence in security reduced attacks' severity in terms of cost and recovery time.
Abstract of lines and curves intersecting at dots
By Christopher Frenz | 11:40 am | July 31, 2024
The recent CrowdStrike outage might have made the issue top of mind for many hospitals IT and security leaders. But it's important to remember that controls don’t fail in just major events – they're always at risk.
Digital abstract of a padlock
By Nathan Eddy | 11:45 am | July 30, 2024
The HSA company says it has discovered "unauthorized access to and potential disclosure of protected health information and/or personally identifiable information stored in an unstructured data repository outside our core systems."
A nurse checking on a patient's file on a digital tablet
By Adam Ang | 09:38 pm | July 29, 2024
It consolidates existing data infrastructure across the sector into one common platform.