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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.
A new study into the marketplace for stolen medical records has found that stolen medical records data does not yet eclipse the value of stolen financial services data, which remains far easier to exploit.
NHS England has set up a new information governance network in a further sign that big changes are coming for the IG Toolkit.
Police are now investigating after a computer virus shut down three northern hospitals for four days.
The information governance toolkit is likely to be “scrapped” as part of a packet of funding to improve cyber security in the NHS, Rob Shaw, NHS Digital’s chief operating officer, has told EHI LIve in Birmingham.
The trust at the centre of a major virus infection has cancelled virtually all of its operations for a third day.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust has shut down the majority of its IT systems in response to a virus attack, declared a major incident, and cancelled activity for two days.
