Industry Perspectives

Washington’s 2026 MHMDA reshapes consent, geofencing, DSARs, vendor risk, and HIPAA overlap for consumer health data.

Healthcare breaches expose PHI and can disrupt EHRs, devices and workflows—causing delays, complications, and higher mortality risk.

CISA and partner agencies update SBOM minimum elements with new fields and clarifications to boost software supply chain transparency.

AnMed recovers from a July 26 malware attack that closed 83 facilities; patients warned about communications.

Use 10–15 KPIs tied to patient safety, PHI protection, and care continuity with clear owners, formulas, and targets.

Examines how AI vendors reduce bias in healthcare via data curation, fairness-aware models, documentation, and post-launch monitoring.

AES for bulk patient telemetry; RSA for device identity, signatures, and key exchange. Hybrid approach with TLS, rotation, and revocation.

Align pre- and postmarket cybersecurity in one lifecycle: shared governance, build-produced SBOMs, coordinated response, scheduled reviews.

RTO vs RPO in healthcare: how downtime and data loss impact patient safety, setting measurable targets, and testing recovery plans.

Checklist to secure medical-device networks: inventory, segmentation, firewall rules, IDS coverage, and tracked residual risk.

How third-party software and vendor outages cause device failures, delayed care, and increased patient harm, plus practical steps to reduce risk.

Show risk before it hits care: practical KRIs for patching, MFA, vendors, devices, detection, and response tied to HIPAA and NIST.

Identifies internet-exposed services, weak remote access, legacy systems, poor segmentation, and unmanaged devices that endanger patient care.

NY SHIELD broadens HIPAA scope, mandates 30-day breach notices, and raises vendor, inventory, and access-control requirements.

Clear steps, deadlines, and notice requirements for reporting breaches of unsecured PHI to individuals, HHS, and media.

Guide to scoping, safe discovery and authenticated scans, validating findings, and prioritizing fixes to secure telehealth and protect patient care.

Case studies show imaging, EHR, chatbot, and infrastructure AI can fail catastrophically under adversarial attacks.

Explains HIPAA’s six-year documentation rule, why backup retention follows state/CMS laws, and how to build resilient, defensible backup policies.

Practical checklist to vet healthcare AI vendors: training data, PHI use, security, bias checks, monitoring, governance, and incident response.

ER/EMS cyberattack response: contain systems, limit PHI disclosures, run the four‑factor risk test, and meet 60‑day HIPAA notice rules.

Practical playbook to detect, contain, and recover from healthcare phishing; prioritize patient safety, PHI review, and HIPAA reporting.

Healthcare must require vendors to provide immutable, time‑synced, tenant‑isolated cloud evidence and SLA-backed exports for HIPAA.

How safety-net hospitals use simple tech, local testing, subgroup tracking, and governance to make AI reduce care gaps.

Practical cloud PHI backup guidance: align RPO/RTO to clinical impact, enforce immutability and isolation, encrypt, and test restores.