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Modern, digitally equipped hospitals have emerged as hotbeds of sensitive medical data. With the increasing digitalization of the healthcare sector, more and more medical data is being generated every day across the globe. In fact, some estimates believe that 30% of the total data generated in the world has a medical origin and purpose, with an astonishing Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of around 36% to date. In such a scenario, malicious actors have also risen to the surface, trying to take advantage of a sector still grappling with data-intensive technology. The onus is on hospitals, as the source and keeper of data, to protect it from getting into the wrong hands.

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CI-ISAC Australia has been selected as the recipient of an Australian Government $6.4 million grant to create a health-specific, information-sharing and analysis centre for Australia’s healthcare industry.

More than one out of three of Australia’s top-ranked public and private hospitals are lagging behind on basic cybersecurity measures, subjecting patients, healthcare professionals and stakeholders to a higher risk of email-based impersonation attacks, including fraud and domain spoofing, according to cybersecurity firm Proofpoint.

India's biggest integrated power company, Tata Power, which has been in business since 1915, has been hit by a ransomware attack staged by the Hive group.

GUEST OPINION: Growing patient expectations are placing higher demands on the healthcare sector than ever before. The instant availability of patient data means X-Rays, MRI scans, ultrasound images and laboratory test results are sent directly to monitors on the wall or a doctor’s tablet.

Bendigo Hospital in regional Victoria is trialing a “world first” medical device - the Medical Quality-of-Care Pressure Injury Management System - from Australian medtech company Lenexa Medical.

New technology designed to streamline communication between hospitals and community health providers is allowing clinicians to share important patient information faster and improve patient care.

Kate Toon, the My Business Awards "Australian Businesswoman of the Year", is helping spread a little joy to the front-line health workers doing it tough in Sydney’s most affected COVID-19 postcodes, by sending cookies of positivity as a way of saying thanks.

A $2.1 million project by the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) to collect patient data in one place is aimed at better equipping healthcare workers when making critical and life-saving clinical decisions.

Hospitals that come under New Zealand's Waikato District Health Board have suffered a "cyber security incident" which has caused a complete outage of its information services.

Australia’s ageing population will see health services continue to be stretched in coming years unless greater efficiencies are embraced led by modern digital technologies that patients increasingly expect, according to the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA).

COVID-19 provided fertile ground for attackers to sow confusion and take advantage of healthcare organisations on the front lines, according to global cybersecurity company Varonis.

Australian consumers and businesses should be more security conscious when using IoT devices, according to a senior executive from digital security products vendor Avast who issued his warning following a recent cyber attack on security camera provider Verkada.

The number of successful ransomware attacks on US public sector bodies fell during the period from January to April month-on-month even as the COVID-19 crisis intensified, but that trend now appears to be reversing, the New Zealand-headquartered security firm Emsisoft says.

VENDOR NEWS:  As businesses emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown, we’re starting to hear stories of organisations that thrived and those that struggled to adapt to a predominantly remote workforce. One example of a business that got it right is Peninsula Health, which covers a number of health facilities and hospitals in the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula areas of Victoria.

VENDOR NEWS:  As businesses emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown, we’re starting to hear stories of organisations that thrived and those that struggled to adapt to a predominantly remote workforce. One example of a business that got it right is Peninsula Health, which covers a number of health facilities and hospitals in the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula areas of Victoria.

Google Cloud has launched a virtual agent support program designed to help healthcare, public health, and non-profit industries quickly build and deploy chatbots that can help serve their customers who are looking for information during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Legislation passed by the Australian Parliament on Wednesday will make it possible for citizens to opt out of the My Health Record digital health program at any time.

Two Australian hospitals have been officially recognised as the first hospitals to adopt the highest international standards of digital health at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society AsiaPac18 Conference and Exhibition.