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From: MobiHealthNews
By Heather Mack
There are plenty of things that hold back innovation in healthcare – regulatory requirements, slow-to-materialize financial returns and the general complexity of the industry have all made healthcare lag behind other tech-enabled fields. Nevertheless, developers and entrepreneurs have persisted, and we now find ourselves surrounded by countless digital health devices.
But with that innovation comes risk, and the latest report from the Department of Health and Human Services’s Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force shows healthcare still has a ways to go to mitigating threats to patient privacy and security. While the past decade has seen significant technological evolution in healthcare, including adoption of electronic health records, digital billing and workflow documentation software, the report noted that cybersecurity efforts were not given the same level of attention.
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