Privacy & Security

Also, Archives NZ has disclosed a potential breach in digitised historical health records. 

This was another challenging year for healthcare information security – but there's hope for the year ahead as technology and policy leaders promote new ideas to reduce risk and strengthen resilience.

The new security requirements conform with the ACSC's Essential Eight strategies for mitigating cybersecurity incidents.

The proposal provides a "valuable tool to support the electronic submission of healthcare information," said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. It would reduce provider burden and could save more than $450 million a year.

While no CMS systems were breached, the agency notified Medicare beneficiaries potentially involved about the exposure of their PII and/or PHI.

Learn how to decrease your risk exposure.

The American Hospital Association is calling for greater federal support for victims of cyberterrorism to help get hospitals back online quickly. It also advises hospitals to coordinate cyber response with their regional emergency planning efforts.

Identify your vendors’ risk level and follow the third-party risk management lifecycle to help your organization address issues such as cybersecurity, reputation protection and patient trust preservation.

Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet, says collaboration is key as organized crime shakes down healthcare – resulting in dangerous diversions of care, patient data compromise and loss of resources.

The Mobile Health Apps tool aims to help developers determine which federal laws apply and which agencies oversee different aspects of mobile health technology.