Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) has published its draft organisational strategy 2024-2030, setting out strategic objectives for digital across health and care, including infrastructure, data platform, open architecture, digital services, digital health and care records, research, innovation and workforce, along with a request for views from partners and stakeholders. The strategy […]
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Great Western Hospitals digital strategy places focus on access, infrastructure, applications, information and digital literacy
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has published its seven-year Digital Strategic Plan, which focuses on the five priority areas of access, infrastructure, applications, information and digital literacy and sets a vision to help improve the trust’s digital maturity. The strategy’s vision is linked with the delivery of the trust’s […]
Interview: Cynerio’s Daniel Brodie on healthcare cyber risks, improving protections, and the promises of generative AI
In 2017 Daniel Brodie began studying the now infamous WannaCry attack which impacted hospitals worldwide. As his research progressed one theme became obvious – facilities routinely deployed hundreds of medical devices on their networks with minimal security protections. Fueled by the challenge of securing healthcare and insight from family members […]
HTN Now: Imprivata on cyber security strategy and why privileged access management matters
At HTN Now, we welcomed Imprivata’s senior product marketing manager Andy Wilcox and identity, security and access governance director Jaimin Patel. Andy and Jaimin shared their insights and expertise on cyber security and privileged access management with our HTN audience. Accelerating IT complexity and the new complex landscape On the […]
NHS Shared Business Services to launch cyber security services framework
A prior information notice has been shared by NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) regarding the procurement of cyber security services for an estimated value of £125 million. The notice shares how NHS SBS plans to put a framework agreement in place for the provision of cyber security services along with […]
“Defend as one” Strategy released to protect the NHS from cyber attacks
The Department of Health & Social Care has released a strategy entitled ‘A cyber resilient health and adult social care system in England: cyber security strategy by 2030’, outlining plans to better equip the NHS in cyber security over the next seven years. “In an increasingly digitised world, protecting [our] services from the disruptive […]
Featured interview: Open Medical’s Harry Lykostratis on cyber and data security
For our January focus on cyber and data security, we were joined by Harry Lykostratis. Harry is Managing Director, Lead Engineer and Founder of Open Medical, as well as a practising orthopaedic surgeon. On his background and current role As well as founding Open Medical and my role as the […]
HTN Now: NHS Arden and GEM CSU on why cyber security is everyone’s responsibility
At a recent edition of HTN Now we were joined by Tej Gudka, Head of Cyber Security at NHS Arden and GEM Commissioning Support Unit (CSU), for a discussion on the importance of cyber security. To begin, Tej offered context around importance of cyber security by examining recent news headlines […]
