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Striking a Balance: Senator Wyden's Act and AI in Healthcare

SecureWorld News

Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore, recently proposed the Algorithmic Accountability Act, legislation that would require companies to assess their automated systems for accuracy, bias, and privacy risks. This includes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems that are increasingly used in healthcare. for SecureWorld News.

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Healthcare Cyberattacks Lead to Increased Mortality, Lower Patient Care: Ponemon Study

eSecurity Planet

Nearly a quarter of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware attacks experienced an increase in patient mortality, according to a study from Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint released today. Healthcare Cyberattacks Common – And Costly. The financial costs of healthcare cyberattacks are high, the report noted, costing an average of $4.4

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How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic. Once slow to adopt new technologies, healthcare-related industries have been rapidly embracing digitalization to enable patient-centric care that is more effective for patients and safer for patients, healthcare professionals and researchers.

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Thales partners with Hint AG to provide managed security services for the Swiss healthcare sector

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Thales partners with Hint AG to provide managed security services for the Swiss healthcare sector madhav Thu, 07/27/2023 - 04:32 Analysts from Statista are projecting that the Healthcare market in Switzerland will need to invest 1.3 billion Swiss Franks in cybersecurity and IT by 2027.

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Multi-cloud use by healthcare providers puts patient data at risk

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

healthcare organizations are nearly universal in the adoption of digital transformation technologies (cloud, SaaS applications, big data, IoT, digital payments, containers, and blockchain). This year’s Thales Data Threat Report-Healthcare Edition shows that cloud usage in the U.S. 12 at 2:00 p.m.

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Why Do Healthcare Departments Need Managed IT Services?

Security Boulevard

With the use of technology in the healthcare industry, cyber crimes are increasing, threatening clients' confidential information. Therefore, more and more healthcare organizations realize the imperativeness of managed IT support and services in their facilities. The post Why Do Healthcare Departments Need Managed IT Services?

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News alert: Harter Secrest & Emery announces designation as NetDiligence-authorized Breach Coac

The Last Watchdog

With more than 20 years of experience in cyber, NetDiligence ® specializes in cyber risk readiness and response services. Paul Greene , CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP, Harter Secrest & Emery’s Privacy and Data Security practice group helps clients respond to data security incidents of all kinds.