Privacy & Security
The Change Healthcare cyberattack was a watershed moment, says Greg Surla, senior vice president and CISO for FinThrive. He advises providers to start with the cybersecurity performance goals before the government dictates controls.
Celo's HIPAA-compliant messaging app allows care teams to share information easily without compromising patients' privacy. Jack Clough, the company's chief growth officer, shares more about the technology.
The Change Healthcare ransomware attack may not have shaken cyber insurance opportunities, but how chain reaction cyberattacks can aggregate policy claims gives underwriters the shivers, explains Hartmut Mai, president of Cyberwrite.
Cybercriminals are innovating quickly, but key learnings from the 2021 ransomware attack that caused a nationwide shutdown of Ireland's healthcare system are still highly relevant, says David Wall, CIO of Tallaght University Hospital.
La Monte Yarborough, HHS CISO, believes that federal agencies, health system partners and vendors should work together to share information and create a "village" that strengthens healthcare cybersecurity.
Frank Forte, CEO of Anatomy IT, discusses how the company uses AI tools to proactively detect and flag cyber threats for healthcare clients so those threats can be quickly remediated before patient care is disrupted.
Healthcare organizations should assess their security risks and be ready to defend against the types of cybercriminals that have recently impacted the industry, says Dave Bailey, VP, Consulting Services, at Clearwater Security.
DirectTrust works to improve interoperability between direct secure messaging platforms and get information service providers to help with secure information exchange, Scott Stuewe, president and CEO, discusses.
While he praises the EU's data protection regulations, Eric Sutherland, senior health economist at the OECD, believes policies and standards must "harmonize" to ensure that public health organizations can access health data as needed.
Results from an annual healthcare cybersecurity survey from HIMSS show why healthcare organizations need adaptable security strategies, perhaps including analog file backups, reports Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS.
