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Cyber security underpins the safe and secure delivery of digital health services. Modern healthcare critically depends on reliable, effective digital infrastructure, playing a key contribution to productivity and efficiency as well as patient safety.
The latest Digital Health cyber security round-up includes news that Dixons Carphone has been hit by yet another cyber-attack, as well as a report from Symantec that suggests a Chinese espionage group may have breached the control systems of a satellite operator.
More than three-quarters of the British public say they trust the NHS with their personal data despite recent privacy scares highlighted by the media.
The national data opt-out programme has been launched, with a view to allowing people to choose how their health data is used for research and planning.
The latest Digital Health cyber security round-up examines research warning that airports are ill-equipped to deal with attacks from cyber space, and a report that suggest businesses that operate bring your own device policies are more likely to suffer security breaches.
The Data Security and Protection Toolkit, which replaces the previous Information Governance toolkit, has been designed to be a easier way to protect patient data.
It’s peak squeaky bum for the NHS as we approach the one year anniversary of WannaCry, which devastated hospital IT systems during the ransomware outbreak on 12 May 2017.
