Privacy & Security

What began as an ONC initiative now independently supports a secure EHR-based communication network and accredits health technology, explains Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, DirectTrust's chief strategy officer.

The payoff behind artificial intelligence, the expertise of virtual CISOs and the tactics of successful device management – Peyman Zand, chief strategy officer at healthcare consulting firm CereCore, spells out the benefits and the challenges.

The physician and software engineer will hold dual titles as Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

M42's Dr. Maaz Shaikh says the company's open-source Med42 LLM, trained on public rather than patient data, can be deployed for multiple use cases and is compliant with many global security standards.

The adoption model's requirements help ensure that health systems' infrastructure is optimized to support advanced cybersecurity and analytics capabilities, says HIMSS digital health strategist Philip Bradley.

HHS Office for Civil Rights says a malicious insider exploited a vulnerability at BayCare Health System that offered "unrestricted access to patient health information."

Visionary healthcare organizations are enhancing the patient experience, improving operational efficiency and increasing cybersecurity resilience with AI networking.

Less than a week after a cyberattack caused the Ohio-based health system to shut down some of its care offerings, cancer patients again have access to radiotherapy treatments.

The DGX Cloud Lepton service will make the company's artificial intelligence graphics processing units directly available to developers seeking compute resources across various cloud platforms.  

Kettering is advising people to be on alert for scammers who are calling patients requesting payments for medical expenses.