Privacy & Security

A doctor appears on a tablet having a telehealth visit with a person with short hair.
By Andrea Fox 10:52 am October 19, 2023
OCR's new resources aim to shore up telehealth privacy practices by helping healthcare organizations guide patients in basic cyber hygiene that can better protect their PHI when accessing virtual care through websites and apps.
Male doctor in a medical mask works at his desktop.
By Andrea Fox 10:32 am October 18, 2023
CISA highlights five recently detected vulnerabilities to its KEV catalog and creates a new list of misconfigurations and weaknesses known to be used in ransomware campaigns, and HC3 warns about NoEscape ransomware.
A female healthcare researcher in a lab looks at a tablet.
By Andrea Fox 09:58 am October 13, 2023
New artificial intelligence capabilities aim to unify healthcare analytics in one common architecture, while machine learning and generative AI-driven expansions in Azure enhance digital transformation and improve clinical workflows, the company says.
Researchers reading findings from a software analysis
By Adam Ang 01:48 am October 13, 2023
Also, BLK-Max Hospital in India is offering a training fellowship for robotic surgery.
A hijab-wearing nurse filling out a patient form on a desk
By Adam Ang 11:51 pm October 11, 2023
It also believes that health organisations must digitalise at their own pace.
Abstract graphic of a lock over data
By Mike Miliard 10:30 am October 11, 2023
The risk management and certification group says the program, touted as the first of its kind, aims to offer a CSF-based strategy to deploy trustworthy models.
NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston
By Andrea Fox 10:34 am October 09, 2023
The software services provider to nonprofits announced it has agreed to pay 49 states and the District of Columbia this month to resolve investigations into a 2020 cyber hack and into misleading data breach statements made to patients and consumers.
Stethoscope resting on tablet
By Mike Miliard 01:42 am October 06, 2023
MorganFranklin Consulting’s Ferdinand Hamada and Matt DeFrain offer their perspectives on the current threat environment and how health systems can build better cybersecurity resilience and business continuity strategies.
Hands holding smartphone
By Andrea Fox 10:28 am October 03, 2023
The American Hospital Association says new regs from the HHS Office for Civil Rights clash with HIPAA, contradict interoperability efforts and are "flawed as a matter of law and harmful as a matter of policy."
Representatives from both the Hospital Authority and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks during the agreement signing for launching the HKSTP HA Data Collaboration Lab
By Adam Ang 03:05 am October 02, 2023
It is launching a data collaboration lab with Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks.