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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.
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.
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.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £185,000 for publishing details of thousands of staff online.
Jon Hoeksma explains why Digital Health News has launched a Cyber Security Hub; and why the NHS needs to wake up to cyber security.
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?
Dame Fiona Caldicott’s most recent review of data sharing will not be published until after the referendum on membership of the European Union, it has been revealed.
