Stas Neyman, Director of Product Marketing at Akamai
In recent years, several major health information exchange platforms in the United States have fallen victim to ransomware attacks. These platforms play a crucial role in U.S….
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The Ministry of Health Singapore has announced that all nine private hospitals in the country have committed to sharing patient health information with the National Electronic Health Record system. They will be working with Synapxe, which…
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HHS OIG rates HHS’s information security program as “not effective” in its annual review, the same rating it gave HHS last year.
OIG made six recommendations to HHS:
Update its inventory of enterprise architecture…
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The symplr 2024 Compass Survey highlights some key challenges that healthcare organizations are grappling with – and its findings suggest a need for systemic change. One of the biggest revelations is 85% of clinicians and…
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Introduction
The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued an urgent warning to the healthcare sector about the Godzilla web shell backdoor, a sophisticated cyberthreat tool believed to be used by Chinese state…
When it comes to targets in healthcare that criminals want to hit with a cyberattack, a telemedicine consultation might not immediately come to mind. But in fact, telehealth is a ripe arena for cyberattacks.There…
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What You Should Know:
– Ransomware attacks are a growing threat across all industries, but the healthcare sector is facing a particularly alarming surge in these incidents, according to new data from SafetyDevices.
– New…
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The Joint Public Health Cybersecurity Task Group, the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council and the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Joint Cyber Working Group are evaluating the current state of readiness within…
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What You Should Know:
– Bluespine, an AI-driven claims cost reduction platform for self-insured employers, has secured $7.2M in seed funding to address the pervasive issue of medical overbilling in the US healthcare system led…
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Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Tom Leary, head of Government Relations at HIMSS, is tracking what the change in the administration could mean for interoperability and data sharing regulations that are already well…
