TIM-6725: Cybersecurity Ethics, Laws, and Regulations in Healthcare

Abelson, R., & Goldstein, M. (2015, February 6). Anthem hacking points to security vulnerability of health care industry. The New York Times.
This resource highlights the vulnerability of health care companies that security specialists say are behind other industries in protecting sensitive personal information.

Martin, G., Martin, P., Hankin, C., Darzi, A., & Kinross, J. (2017, July 6). Cybersecurity and healthcare: How safe are we? The BMJ.
This resource highlights how digital technology can improve clinical outcomes and transform care delivery in healthcare systems around the world and how cybersecurity is a critical patient safety issue requiring urgent solutions.

Coventry, L., & Branley, D. (2018). Cybersecurity in healthcare: A narrative review of trends, threats and ways forward. Maturitas, 113, 48–52.
This resource highlights the increasing concerns relating to the healthcare
data and devices because of increasing connectivity to existing computer
networks, which have exposed medical devices to new cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Kaplan, B. (2020, July 31). Revisiting health information technology ethical, legal, and social issues and evaluation: Telehealth/telemedicine and COVID-19. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 143.
This resource identifies and summarizes ethical, legal, and social issues related to information technology in healthcare, as exemplified by telehealth and telemedicine. It also expands on prior analyses, addresses gaps illuminated by the COVID-19 experience, and propose future research directions.

Human Health Services. (2020, August 31). Guidance on HIPAA & cloud computing.
This resource assists HIPAA covered entities and business associates and
cloud services providers (CSPs) in understanding their HIPAA obligations.

HIPPA Journal. (2020, March 2). Compliant IT infrastructure.
This resource looks at healthcare law and what organizations must do to maintain compliance. Focus on reading pages 11–16.