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Healthcare Cybersecurity: Tackling Threats at Cybermed Summit 2024

By For Everyone, For Health Care Providers, Patient Advocacy Leaders

This year’s summit will feature discussions led by healthcare providers, cybersecurity researchers, public health policymakers, representatives of rural healthcare, and more. The event will focus on improving long-term resilience and sustainability of the public health sector, examining effectiveness and efficiency of so-called “best efforts” to date. Using real world examples, we will help to build a better framework for improving healthcare cybersecurity, drawing on public policy, operational experience, and economics.

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Cybermed Summit: June 13th in Washington DC

By For Everyone, For Health Care Providers, Patient Advocacy Leaders

This year’s summit will feature discussions led by healthcare providers, cybersecurity researchers, public health policymakers, representatives of rural healthcare, and more. The event will focus on improving long-term resilience and sustainability of the public health sector, examining effectiveness and efficiency of so-called “best efforts” to date. Using real world examples, we will help to build a better framework for improving healthcare cybersecurity, drawing on public policy, operational experience, and economics.

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The new FTC Data Breach Notification Final Rule is a win for Consumers/Patients and Privacy

By For Everyone, For Health Care Providers, Patient Advocacy Leaders, Public Comment

On April 26, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its finalized changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule.  Some may remember the prior history of the FTC failing to provide protections for health groups back in 2019. At the time patients raised an FTC Complaint about the privacy of ‘Closed’ groups, yet the complaint went unheeded. It is a notable to see after five years the tides are turning toward stronger consumer protection and health privacy.

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