Privacy & Security

Also, Te Whatu Ora is consolidating the costing systems across New Zealand's South Island.

Doctors' Management Services failed to determine the potential risks and vulnerabilities in the breach, HHS says.

That's an approximately 30% decrease in data center cost, coming from reductions in labor costs, software maintenance, data center equipment and maintenance, and utilities. Further, the cloud migration has boosted the recovery posture.

Electronic health record market, policy and funding variables have historically left behavioral health behind, but there is movement on all fronts, says Alisa Chestler, chair of the data protection, privacy and cybersecurity Team at Baker Donelson.

While the agreement is not an admission of liability, Doctors’ Management Services has agreed to pay a penalty of $100,000 and be subject to HIPAA-compliance monitoring by OCR for three years.

Threat actors could execute on a remote code execution vulnerability in Mirth Connect, a cross-platform communications tool, to gain access and compromise data, according to the NIST national vulnerability database.

Healthcare organizations should build cyber resiliency to better manage future targeted ransomware attacks.

Eli Levin, who works on economic affairs and innovation for the Consulate General of Israel to New England, discusses how the war in Israel has affected digital health and technology.

The White House plan for "safe, secure and trustworthy" artificial intelligence wants the Department of Health and Human Services to have a mechanism in place to collect reports of "harms or unsafe healthcare practices," and act to remedy them.

Risks run high as the healthcare industry in Australia is increasingly becoming more data-reliant amid growing consumerisation, says managed service and cloud solutions provider Intelliworx.