Privacy & Security

Also, Southeast Asian hospital chain HMI Group has bought health tech company MHC. 

Standardizing information capture, including a universal patient identification, can enhance data quality while eliminating the 20% record duplication rate facing healthcare organizations, says Gregg Church, president of 4medica.

The exploitation of a flaw in unpatched backup and replication software could result in the compromise of healthcare network infrastructure, data theft and ransomware deployment. 

The national pharmacy network, which serves long-term care, senior living and behavioral health organizations, notified patients and families that an unknown third party accessed PHI and PII in March.

QR codes designed to improve data transfer can entice healthcare data breaches. Sharat Potharaju of Beaconstac shares advice on how to safely bolster data security while providing patients the ease of mobile access.

Lessons learned from the HIMSS23 Machine Learning & AI for Healthcare Forum, as told by David Metcalf, director of METIL at the UCF Institute for Simulation & Training.

The 17-step road map is meant to help sort out shared healthcare cyber hygiene responsibilities, giving policymakers and providers direction toward protecting patient safety in the face of cyber threats.

Health data from wearable and implantable medical devices should be surrounded by stronger security, says Michelle Ramim, assistant professor of health informatics at Nova Southeastern University.

Healthcare organizations need to go from a reactive cybersecurity stance oriented around point solutions to developing comprehensive strategies to mitigate risk, says R. David Moon, chairman and founder of Arx Nimbus.

The complaint alleges the EHR provider failed to follow guidelines for protecting data after the company said compromised credentials enabled unauthorized access to the confidential information of more than 1 million people.