Privacy & Security

Plus: Ukrainian banks and military agency hit with DDoS attack, and an EHR vendor agrees to pony up $1.3 million after a data breach.

Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City filed a motion for a temporary restraining order after COVID-19-related social media posts accused providers of murder.

In an ever-changing landscape of cyberthreats, here are some ways CISOs can bring teams together and establish a culture of security.

The EU announced that it's preparing to extend the Digital COVID Certificate by a year, until June 2023. On 31 March, it will publish a report on the technology’s regulation, and Brussels-based Frieda Klotz finds out more.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic began to ripple across the world, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center had only used telehealth in a limited capacity.

Teladoc Health, IBM, Epic and athenahealth all signed on to support the proposed legislation.

Implementing a framework can be useful, but it requires resources – and healthcare organizations may face challenges gaining consensus over which ones to deploy, said a compliance expert ahead of HIMSS22.

The incident, which took place in August, exposed the information of about 22,000 individuals.

A healthcare cybersecurity expert discusses how IT buyers can put financial pressure on device manufacturers to help drive a higher level of security for their fleets.

As risk levels increase, health systems have "significant challenges to overcome," according to the 13th annual report – including suboptimal security spending, vulnerable legacy tech and weak-link human factors.