Cybersecurity and Privacy

Children's National Hospital CISO Nate Lesser highlights his coming HIMSS23 session where he will explain a system-wide cybersecurity effort that pulls in staff members across the enterprise.

Long a security resource, the Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook has gotten some updates. Margie Zuk and Penny Chase of MITRE preview their HIMSS23 session about them.

Organizations can lean into their strengths in their personnel and networks to build capabilities, according to Aimee Cardwell, SVP and CISO at UnitedHealth Group, in this preview of her HIMSS23 presentation.

How will a new IoT specification help medical devices connect privately and securely? This HIMSS23 preview with Florence Hudson, executive director of Columbia University's Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, explains.

A survey of more than 3,500 U.S. adults reveals consent, data transparency, data deletion and oversight may strengthen consumer trust and support socially valuable uses of digital health data.

NetSfere CEO Anurag Lal, who is the former director of the FCC's National Broadband Task Force, talks about the threat landscape and how providers can position people, technology and processes for defense.

Scott Loughlin, partner at Hogan Lovells, discusses the Federal Trade Commission's recent enforcement action against GoodRx and what digital health companies should learn from the case.

In a proposed order, the online therapy company would also pay $7.8 million for allegedly sharing consumer data with third parties like Facebook and Snapchat for advertising purposes.

According to a review of studies in the Lancet Digital Health, "a real risk of reidentification exists" when sharing data from wearable devices.

With the rise of digital health solutions, the healthcare industry has an opportunity to reimagine care delivery – and the Digital Medicine Society’s Applied Digital Health Ethics course is ready to prepare healthcare professionals for this new future.