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CHIME, AEHIS, Offer Suggestions to Lawmakers for Improved Cybersecurity

Healthcare Informatics: The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) have written a statement to lawmakers offering suggestions for how to bolster healthcare cybersecurity.

CHIME references the recent the Ponemon Institute report that details how the cyber threat landscape has never been more dangerous. Indeed, the two healthcare associations are calling for greater collaboration between providers and medical device manufacturers and for the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to develop standardized cybersecurity framework for medical devices, per their joint statement to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terror.

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