Privacy & Security

Joint governance, audit monitoring and effective communication can help win patient trust, even in a fraught cybersecurity landscape where health systems are targeted for their patient data, says a Kaiser Permanente informatics leader.

As more states roll out e-prescribing legislation, providers can turn to one-stop solutions for multi-factor authentication and identity-proofing.

Taking care to address the challenges of securing remote patient monitoring devices will help mitigate the cybersecurity risks of hospital-at-home care, says Kevin Littlefield, principal, cybersecurity at MITRE.

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A health system culture that takes patient privacy and cybersecurity seriously starts from the top down, says Renee Broadbent, CIO and information security officer at SoNE Healthcare.

Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center were forced to divert patients from the ransomware attack on August 31 and are still canceling appointments.

The federal tools and public-private partnerships aim to help the healthcare industry manage an array of cyberattack risks, says Erik Decker, CISO at Intermountain Health.

The FDA clarifies its interpretation of "more effective" and indicates it will consider improved accessibility of a device during the Breakthrough designation process.

When healthcare CISOs owned responsibility for medical device security, the application of frameworks such as HHS 405(d) Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices increased by as much as 18%, according to early peer benchmarking research results.

Healthcare organizations need to prepare for cyberattacks – and communicate honestly and promptly about security events with staff and patients when they occur, says Dr. Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics at Kaiser Permanente.