Keeping patients safe during anesthesia care is a multifaceted challenge. The skills and vigilance of the anesthesia professional are necessary, but not sufficient. The ergonomics of the care environment, systems of care, communication between teams and many other factors ultimately impact patient safety. Now, it seems we need to add cybersecurity threats as another dimension to the patient safety battle.
MFA. OTP. FIDO. SMS. PKI. All of these acronyms might have you saying OMG, but they are each important to understand when it comes to managing authentication. It’s an anomaly these days when a major breach happens and compromised authentication systems don’t play a role. Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) is critical to stopping attacks — but as we’ll detail in this paper, not all MFA is the same, and attackers are catching up to some first-generation MFA tools. Health CISOs need to stay ahead of the curve.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) welcomes the opportunity to submit comments in response to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) 2023-2026 National Health Security Strategy (NHSS) Request for Information (RFI) published in the Federal Register on February 14, 2022.