Speech data inherently contains personally identifiable information. Anonymization strategies to obscure this while preserving essential characteristics all represent a tradeoff between privacy and utility. We examine this balancing act of modifying voice characteristics, masking…
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Why Healthcare Organizations Turn to MSSPs
Along with the potential to fill staffing shortages, MSSPs help address the “constant barrage of attacks on the industry,” according to Christopher Fielder, director of product marketing at Arctic…
What You Should Know:
– Ransomware attacks are a growing threat across all industries, but the healthcare sector is facing a particularly alarming surge in these incidents, according to new data from SafetyDevices.
– New…
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HealthEquity, a provider of health savings accounts, announced the personal and health information of 4.3 million individuals was compromised in a data breach involving an unnamed third-party vendor.WHY IT MATTERSThe breach apparently occurred in…
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What You Should Know:
– A new report by Metomic, a data security company, reveals concerning vulnerabilities in how healthcare organizations handle sensitive data.
– The report, titled “Healthcare Data Crisis – Uncovering the Alarming Gaps…
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What You Should Know:
– Oracle announced significant updates to its Argus and Safety One Intake solutions, bolstering its pharmacovigilance portfolio with AI-powered features.
– These AI enhancements cater to the evolving needs of life science…
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As Ascension continues to work toward network-wide restoration of its electronic health record, the 19-state health system this week confirmed that the May 8 ransomware attack that debilitated its IT systems also may have…
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UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testified on May 1 before both the House and Senate about the seismic February 21 cyberattack of UHG subsidiary Change Healthcare, which was infiltrated by the ALPHV ransomware gang. He…
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The following is a guest article by Jatin (JT) Thakkar, General Manager for Global Services and Solutions at Carestream
Every day patients trust their health to the care of medical providers. They also place their…
By Jacqueline LaPointe
November 01, 2023 – Minority groups are at risk following the recent 23andMe data breach that has resulted in health data and personally identifiable information (PII) of certain minority groups exposed on the…
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