Privacy & Security
The cross-agency, cross-industry collaboration driving CMMI’s first truly interoperable payment model could improve oncology delivery for years to come, says the Digital Medicine Society's Jennifer Goldsack.
The new Infrastructure Adoption Model is designed to help health systems link their IT deployments to their clinical and business goals and help them reduce costs, mitigate cyber risk and boost outcomes for both patients and clinicians.
Also, eHealth NSW has finally hired a new CTO.
Ahead of new enforceable standards, U.S. Health and Human Services has released voluntary cybersecurity performance goals to address the most significant cyberattack vectors hospitals and healthcare providers face.
Singapore is becoming concerned about cybersecurity risks with the increasing integration of medical devices in its health system.
Iain Paterson of WELL Health Technologies and Yotam Segev of Cyera discuss how cloud infrastructure provides uniform, flexible and manageable security protection and privacy controls for protected health data.
The watchdog agency said that it found the existing coordination agreement does not reflect "organizational and procedural changes," including the FDA's authority to find that medical devices in use violate federal law.
The hospital "failed to handle its patients’ health information with care," said Attorney General Letitia James. It has pledged to update its policies on third-party tools, ensure deletion of PHI gathered by those tools and boost its privacy safeguards.
Being a cybersecurity professional has its difficulties – like tackling bad actors and working out how AI can improve or hinder strategies to ensure healthcare system security, says Richard Staynings, chief security strategist at Cylera.
Australia's largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider is still figuring out which data were "removed" by hackers.