Is that health app safe to use? A new framework aims to provide an answer

A new framework for assessing the privacy, technical security, usability and clinical assurance and safety of digital health technologies has been created by the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ORCH… Continue reading Is that health app safe to use? A new framework aims to provide an answer

A checklist to help healthcare organizations respond to a serious cyberattack

How should organizations in the healthcare sector respond to outage due to a serious cyberattack? The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council’s (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) has released a tactical checklist aimed at h… Continue reading A checklist to help healthcare organizations respond to a serious cyberattack

Medical device cybersecurity: What to expect in 2022?

Cybellum released a survey report about medical device cybersecurity, along with trends and predictions for 2022. Medical device cybersecurity has become an extremely complex challenge. With medical devices becoming software-driven machines, and the ra… Continue reading Medical device cybersecurity: What to expect in 2022?

Lack of data readiness threatens digital transformation in healthcare

A majority of healthcare leaders have established digital transformation as a top priority spurred by the pandemic, yet they’re facing a chronic, underlying challenge that’s impeding their efforts: data readiness. As a result, the number of healthcare … Continue reading Lack of data readiness threatens digital transformation in healthcare

Hospital hallway robots get patches for potentially serious bugs

Five zero-days found in Aethon TUG robots included one that could allow an attacker to control the machines, Cynerio said.

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49% of small medical practices don’t have a cyberattack response plan

Sophisticated cyberattacks are crippling healthcare providers by posing a threat to core functions and patient privacy, according to Software Advice survey. Findings reveal that 22% of small practices and 45% of large practices have experienced a ranso… Continue reading 49% of small medical practices don’t have a cyberattack response plan

Deploying pseudonymization techniques to protect health data

A report of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) explores how pseudonymization techniques can help increase the protection of health data. The healthcare sector has highly benefited from technological developments and the digitalization … Continue reading Deploying pseudonymization techniques to protect health data

Japanese Healthcare Firm ‘Doctors Me’ Exposed Images of 12,000 Patients

By Deeba Ahmed
In Total Doctors Me left 30GB worth of data exposed to the public due to a misconfigured Amazon…
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Healthcare IT market to reach $484 billion by 2026

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for healthcare IT estimated at $276.8 billion in the year 2022, is projected to reach a revised size of $484 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 15.1% over the analysis period, according to Global Industry … Continue reading Healthcare IT market to reach $484 billion by 2026