Press & Releases

HSCC Cybersecurity letter in response to NIST request for comments on NIST SP 800-66r2 initial public draft, Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule: A Cybersecurity Resource Guide.

The intersection between cybersecurity and healthcare can sometimes be a complicated gray area for people that don’t know much about this topic. In this episode, we talk with Erik Decker, the Chief Information Security Officer at Intermountain Healthcare, a mastermind leader in cybersecurity in the healthcare field. When it comes to the healthcare sector, Erik reflects on how technology has to keep up with the pace we are now running in, addressing threats around cybersecurity and the relationship between AI and machine learning in this topic.

 

CHIME and WEDI have developed the “Think Before You Click” resource to assist consumers who are looking to share their health information with third-party apps. This initiative, which includes a 5-step checklist, is designed to educate and empower consumers to take the appropriate precautions prior to the transmission of health information to third-party apps. The checklist is non-branded and is made available at no cost to any organization seeking to educate and protect their constituents. There are three versions to allow for end users to customize the resource with their logo.

Denise Anderson, president and CEO of the Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center, and HSCC Cyber Working Group Executive Committee Member, testifies at U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

New Health Sector Coordinating Council guidance aims to help medical device makers improve their communications regarding security vulnerabilities in their products, says Matt Russo, a security leader at Medtronic and a member of the task group that developed the document.

Today the Health Sector Coordinating Council’s (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) published the “Operational Continuity-Cyber Incident (OCCI)” checklist.

 

 

Medical technology companies and health delivery organizations have a new template published March 3 for agreeing on cybersecurity contractual terms and conditions to reduce cost, complexity and time in the contracting process and improve patient safety.

In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the federal tally shows that a record number of major health data breaches were reported in the U.S. in 2021, and the overwhelming majority of them involved hacking/IT incidents.