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AI and Patient Health Data Access: Considering the Risks

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2025/10/17

Among pressing issues facing healthcare providers and health IT vendors is how artificial intelligence enabled tools such as AI assistants might further facilitate patients' access to records as well as the transmission of records themselves, said attorney Alisa Chestler of law firm Baker Donelson.

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New York Hospitals Are Facing Tougher Cyber Rules...

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2025/10/14

State cybersecurity regulations that apply to some hospitals in New York state go well compliance under the federal HIPAA security rule, posing expanded data governance challenges for providers, said Matthew Bernstein of consulting firm Bernstein Data.

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How OT Device Flaws Can Threaten Hospital Operations

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2025/08/04

Recent advisories from U.S. federal authorities on vulnerabilities in certain operational technology devices underscore the potential security risks that many healthcare providers frequently underestimate, said Sila Özeren, a security research engineer at Picus Security.

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Why Legal Woes Continue to Mount Over Health Data...

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2025/08/01

The use on online tracking tools on the health-related websites and apps of HIPAA and non-HIPAA regulated entities continues to be a lightning rod due to a long list of ongoing data privacy, regulatory and legal concerns, said partner and attorney Elizabeth Hodge of the law firm Akerman.

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Why Identity Security Still Lags in Healthcare Sector

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2025/06/04

Identity security is still one of the most underinvested areas of cybersecurity across the healthcare sector, regardless of the depth of cyber resources available to many different types and sizes of entities, said Hugo Lai, CISO at Temple University Health System.

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The Forgotten Details of Ransomware Response Plans

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2025/06/04

While healthcare organizations often know in general what they need to do in case they're faced with a ransomware attack, the devil is in the details of how comprehensive and well-rehearsed that incident preparedness plan is for optimal response, said Rick Doten, vice president and healthplan CISO at Centene Corp.

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How AI in Healthcare Can Speed Up Cyber Response

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2025/03/07

Artificial intelligence-based tools are among the most promising advancing technologies for healthcare sector organizations to help to address cybersecurity resource shortages, said Chris Tyberg, CISO of medical device and consumer health product manufacturer Abbott.

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Reshaping Healthcare - and Healthcare Cyber - With AI

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2025/03/07

The use of artificial intelligence is not only reshaping healthcare delivery in the sector but also healthcare cybersecurity within organizations, said Anahi Santiago, CISO of ChristianaCare, the largest healthcare delivery organization in the state of Delaware.

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Managing Legacy Medical Device and App Cyber Risks

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2025/03/06

Legacy apps and medical devices continue to pose persistent and considerable risk to healthcare IT environments, and many organizations are still unaware of their prevalence in their settings, said Keith Fricke, partner and principal consultant at tw-Security, who discusses mitigation steps to take.

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How Some State Health Privacy Laws Throw a Curveball...

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2025/03/06

State privacy laws, such as Washington State's My Health My Data Act, could throw a curve ball in the use of certain consumer information for artificial intelligence and machine learning endeavors, said regulatory attorney Adam Greene of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine.

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Quantum Computing in Healthcare: 'The Next Revolution'

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2025/03/05

Quantum computing could bring the next technology "revolution" in healthcare, but organizations will face critical cybersecurity issues when quantum becomes a reality, said attorney Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

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Preparing for 'Nightmare' Medical Device Attacks

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2025/03/05

So far, medical devices affected in ransomware attacks have mostly been a casualty of IT networks being taken offline. But the potential nightmare scenario is a targeted device attack in which cybercriminals threaten to kill patients, said Dr. Eric Liederman, CEO of consulting firm CyberSolutionsMD.

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Conquering Cyber Risks Involving Web Browsers in...

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2025/03/04

As clinicians move to a model of working anywhere - on many types of devices and under a variety of different internet environments - web browser security is a heightened concern, said John Frushour, vice president and CISO at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and CyberEdBoard member.

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How Hackers Using AI Tools Threaten the Health Sector

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2025/03/04

The majority of significant attacks hitting the health sector involve unpatched vulnerabilities dating back years, a situation cybercriminals are more easily and swiftly able to exploit using AI-based tools, said Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center President and CEO Denise Anderson.

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Mapping Health Sector Chokepoints Before the Next Big...

Government Information Security Podcast ·

2025/03/04

The Health Sector Coordinating Council is kicking off a health sector mapping initiative aimed at helping the ecosystem avoid massive disruptions in the event of major cyber incidents, said Greg Garcia, executive director for cybersecurity at the Health Sector Coordinating Council.

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Applying Privacy Enhancing Tech to Help Identify Bird...

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2025/03/03

The adoption of privacy enhancing technologies, including fully homomorphic encryption, can help secure data as it is collected, integrated and shared for detecting and responding to public health emergencies such as bird flu, said Kurt Rohloff, co-founder and CTO of Duality Technologies.

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Overcoming Identity and Access Challenges in Healthcare

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2024/11/29

Third-party access management poses significant cybersecurity risks in healthcare, but continuous identity management and monitoring can help mitigate those risks, said Jim Routh, chief trust officer at Saviynt.

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Exposed on the Web: Thousands of Devices, Medical...

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2024/11/28

Thousands of unique IP addresses are potentially exposing medical devices, electronic medical records systems and other sensitive healthcare information to the internet, said security researcher Himaja Motheram of security firm Censys, which made the discovery.

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Why Shoring Up Cyber at Rural and Small Hospitals Is...

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2024/10/28

When a large hospital in an urban area is shut down by ransomware, the disruption can be significant, but when a rural hospital faces a similar cyber outage, the impact on patient safety and the community can be extreme, said Nitin Natarajan of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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Unforeseen Risks to Medical Devices in Ransomware...

Government Information Security Podcast ·

2024/10/24

While ransomware attacks against medical devices don't happen often, disruptive cyber incidents that affect the availability of the IT systems that medical devices rely on are a big concern that needs the industry's critical attention, said Jessica Wilkerson of the FDA.

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