Privacy & Security
Steven Ramirez, CISO at Renown Health, and Steve Cagle, CEO at Clearwater, talk about the top cyber threats to healthcare and how vendors and providers – as evidenced by their long-term partnership – can work together for better risk management.
An "unwritten requirement" can help healthcare organizations understand their environments and examine vulnerabilities to protect ePHI, says Chad Peterson, managing director at NetSPI.
HHS Office for Civil Rights Director Melanie Rainer describes how her office is helping providers understand and meet their security and compliance requirements.
Carriers are getting better than ever at understanding how healthcare cyberattacks unfold and can help protect healthcare organizations before threat actors strike, says John Menefee, cyber risk product manager at Travelers Bond and Specialty Insurance.
Revised cyber hygiene resources and cybersecurity education videos for clinicians can help improve postures, and a new analysis found that hospitals with mature third-party programs save on insurance premiums, says Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet.
CIOs are focusing on third-party risk, AI tools and HIPAA compliance and tips for HIT security at the HIMSS23 cybersecurity forum, according to Aaron Miri, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at Baptist Health.
The policies that followed a pre-HIPAA workplace data breach won back patient trust, sparking his interest in cybersecurity, recounts Dr. Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics for the Permanente Medical Group.
The guide's accessible cybersecurity information benefits all levels of organizations and helps improve business continuity planning and mitigating impacts, says Gerry Blass, CEO of ComplyAssistant and Frank Sinatra, CISO at Newark's University Hospital.
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.
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.
