[author: Jane Anderson]
As the COVID-19 pandemic progressed from its urgent beginning to almost a “new normal,” chief information security officers (CISOs) at health systems have been fighting to combat emerging cyberthreats while supporting the sudden shift to telemedicine and working from home. In doing so, the officers said, the experience offers lessons for the path forward.
Five privacy and cybersecurity experts offered their take on the pandemic and what it revealed about the health care industry’s cyber strengths and weaknesses on March 22 at the 30
th annual National HIPAA Summit, which was held virtually.
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“Last March was a pretty big blur,” said Jacki Monson, vice president and chief privacy and information security officer at Sutter Health in northern California. “Literally from one day to the next, we went from having a couple of hundred workforce members working from home to close to 15,000.” This affected security, of course, but it also affected w
CHIME, HIMSS won t hold joint forum this year
HIMSS
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives won t host an event at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society s annual trade show in 2021. CHIME and HIMSS have enjoyed years of a beneficial partnership, but we have decided to explore different directions in how we serve and grow our memberships, a CHIME spokesperson said in an emailed statement. While there are always opportunities for future collaborations, we do not have any formal arrangements in place at this time.
In years past, the two groups had hosted a CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum, a one-day forum that takes place at the HIMSS event and where they honor a jointly selected CIO of the Year. That joint forum won t take place this year.