The Joint Commission is kicking off a new voluntary certification program for hospitals and critical access hospitals’ responsible use of health data. The effort aims to help address growing privacy concerns over the secondary use of patient data by third parties for artificial intelligence initiatives, algorithms, medical discovery and other activities. The U.S. healthcare quality […]
An employee who used an app to escalate privileges in a bid to download a torrent client onto a work computer. A programmer who ran code from GitHub and ransomed his own machine. An internal user who tried to troubleshoot a Linux host machine rather than going to IT – and used a local privilege […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday released a sweeping strategy document outlining how the Biden administration proposes to nudge the healthcare sector into improving its often poor cybersecurity. The strategy includes updating the HIPAA Security Rule in the next year, establishing new cybersecurity requirements for hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid […]
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