Privacy & Security

Cybercriminals are innovating quickly, but key learnings from the 2021 ransomware attack that caused a nationwide shutdown of Ireland's healthcare system are still highly relevant, says David Wall, CIO of Tallaght University Hospital.

La Monte Yarborough, HHS CISO, believes that federal agencies, health system partners and vendors should work together to share information and create a "village" that strengthens healthcare cybersecurity.  

Nuance did not revoke the employee's access to the health system's records upon termination, which allowed unauthorized access to the personal information of more than a million patients.

Also: HIMSS Privacy and Security leader campaigns for ISC2 Board.

Frank Forte, CEO of Anatomy IT, discusses how the company uses AI tools to proactively detect and flag cyber threats for healthcare clients so those threats can be quickly remediated before patient care is disrupted.

In 2023, 35% of third-party breaches affected healthcare organizations with application security presenting the broadest attack surface, according to a new cybersecurity analysis of the largest healthcare companies.

The partnership will help connect service members – active-duty military and veterans – with their electronic data via the statewide health information exchange.

The simulated cybersecurity attack on an artificial intelligence-enabled system enabled participants to hone their information-sharing and incident response skills. It underscored the need to ensure secure-by-design products, said CISA's Jen Easterly. 

The Indonesian Ministry of Health has recently received the tech giant's support in its development of AI applications in healthcare.

The Margo initiative is developing an open standard to scale data exchange across multi-vendor environments and help organizations automate interoperability with edge applications, devices and software.