Privacy & Security
Healthcare organizations to prepare for cyberattacks – and communicate honestly and promptly about security events with staff and patients when they occur, says Dr. Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics at Kaiser Permanente.
There are cybersecurity risks posed by smart medical devices, but most people would not be a target of such attacks, said Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
Collaboration among health systems, vendors and regulators is critical to help guide the development of and use artificial intelligence in healthcare, says Dr. Brian Anderson, chief digital health physician at MITRE.
OrthoVirginia's CIO Terri Ripley tells why the practice did not pay the millions attackers demanded. The practice embarked on an 18-month recovery process while continuing to serve patients coming in for overdue surgeries following the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the HIMSS 2023 Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, Dr. Christian Dameff, medical director of cybersecurity for the University of California San Diego, will address bringing all stakeholders to the table to talk about protecting care quality.
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Romel Khalife, UAE and Kuwait GM at Oracle Health shares his insights about the company's vision, highlighting its role in promoting security, reliability, innovation, and resource planning, all within a single strategic framework.
Cybersecurity challenges are often "really a matter of people taking it as seriously as we do," says Zina Kind, IT director at The Admiral at the Lake, which provides all levels of senior living, from independent to dementia care.
HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf says health equity requires designs that are tolerant of more basic infrastructure and that balance data access versus data protection.
John Nebergall, COO of Consensus Cloud Solutions, explains why interoperability standards must make the transition from securing patient health data to delivering a clear output for clinicians, and how AI can help.
Edward Yurcisin, chief technology officer at the NCQA, says the organization is using its open-source CQL engine to digitize HEDIS measures and others to improve the quality of healthcare in the U.S. and internationally with FHIR.
