From: iHealthBeat
Two perspectives published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday argue that the health care industry needs to be better prepared for cyberattacks that could endanger both patients and health care providers.
Cybersecurity and Health Care
In one perspective, Eric Perakslis — former CIO and chief scientist at FDA and current executive director of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Biomedical Informatics — writes, “The privacy and security rules put in place by [HIPAA] have raised awareness of the importance of protecting personal health information and have provided a regulatory framework to encourage compliance — but compliance does not necessarily translate into security.”
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‘Hacktivists’ and Hospitals
In another perspective, Daniel Nigrin — CIO and senior vice president of Boston Children’s Hospital — shares his hospital’s experience handling an attack by the hacker group Anonymous.
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