White hack exposes risk posed by connected devices
An ethical hack by an IT security provider of a private health clinic’s IT system has highlighted the vulnerability of internet connected medical devices.
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Davey Winder: securing the Internet of Medical Things
The Internet of Things is an exciting prospect for healthcare; but when everything from transfusion pumps to home testing kits are linked to your network, how do you secure it?
Cyber Security
NHS urged to take security steps ahead of Caldicott report
NHS organisations have been urged to appoint a senior information risk owner alongside a Caldicott Guardian – and to make sure that both are operating at “board or equivalent level.”
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Dan Taylor: taking security out of the bunker
The head of the Health and Social Care Centre’s security operations may work in a super secure area, but in a new column for Digital Health he argues that security is far too important to be left to the experts.
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Stand and deliver: ransomware in healthcare
Cyber security has been rising up the agenda of US health CIOs for some years; but nothing has concentrated their minds like a recent wave of ransomware attacks. Daloni Carlisle look at what the UK should learn from them.
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56 Dean Street fined £180,000 by ICO
The 56 Dean Street clinic in London’s Soho has been fined £180,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after an email blunder led to the leak of almost 800 email addresses of patients who attended HIV clinics.
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Blackpool Hospitals fined for publishing staff details
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £185,000 for publishing details of thousands of staff online.
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Cyber security is critical to the future of the NHS
Jon Hoeksma explains why Digital Health News has launched a Cyber Security Hub; and why the NHS needs to wake up to cyber security.
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Davey Winder: hacking healthcare
Security journalist Davey Winder starts a new series of columns on Digital Health’s Cyber Security Hub by asking: what is the truth of hacking healthcare?
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Caldicott and care.data stalled by EU referendum ‘purdah’
Dame Fiona Caldicott’s most recent review of data sharing will not be published until after the referendum on membership of the European Union, it has been revealed.
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