Security

Article • Exploring safeguards and incident response

Radiology vs. ransomware: How to defend imaging departments against cyberattacks

Cyberattacks on healthcare have reached unprecedented levels, with radiology departments emerging as particularly vulnerable targets. At the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2026…

Article • Risks, conditions, and safe practice

When metal meets magnet: Implant safety in MRI

From tissue heating to image artifacts – implants were once considered an absolute contraindication to MRI. Modern implant design and evolving safety standards have changed that picture…

News • Implementation assessment

Patient safety: Can “Martha's Rule” save lives?

“Martha’s Rule” is designed to give patients and families the opportunity to report concerns during hospital stay. Five years after its introduction, a study evaluates the benefits.

Article • The future of the EU Medical Device Regulation

MDR and IVDR: Navigating the rocky road

Perfectly viable medical devices disappearing from the European market, manufacturers walking away from the EU rather than navigating regulatory demands, patients losing access to products with long,…

News • Data protection

Imaging IT platform clears cybersecurity bar

Agfa HealthCare has renewed its HITRUST i1 Certification for the second consecutive year, confirming strong cybersecurity controls for its Enterprise Imaging platform.

News • Socio-technical risks of speech-to-text systems

AI scribes in clinical settings: How reliable are they?

How reliable is clinical speech-to-text AI? New research aims to not only answer this question but find specific solutions to advancing safe and reliable AI systems in medical documentation.

Article • ECR 2026 explores LLM-based vulnerabilities

Poisoned pixels, phishing, prompt injection: Cybersecurity threats in AI-driven radiology

One phishing email sends an entire county’s health service back into the age of pen and paper for months. A hidden prompt is buried within an abdominal CT image: At ECR 2026 in Vienna, cybersecurity experts presented real-world cases that read like ghost stories: tales that exemplify new vulnerabilities in modern AI-driven radiology systems – and how to avoid them.

News • Image encryption approach

Embracing chaos to enhance cybersecurity of medical images

Leveraging the power of chaos theory, experts have developed a new way to encrypt medical images such as X-ray, CT and MRI scans, keeping them secure even if hospital networks are breached.

Article • From promise to practice

Healthcare AI's trust issues (and what it takes to overcome them)

The promise of AI in healthcare is enormous – however, most who have actually worked with today's models will agree that the technology is not quite there yet. At MEDICA, a panel of AI experts and healthcare leaders tackled a fundamental question: What stands between AI's current state and its potential as a reliable healthcare companion? The discussion revealed that technical…

Article • Security’s double-edged sword

Building cyber resilience in the age of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare, but it also introduces new cybersecurity risks that challenge IT teams. While AI streamlines diagnosis and workflow, cybercriminals are leveraging the same technology to infiltrate hospital systems. Experts addressed these emerging threats and strategies for resilience during the ‘Maximising What You Have for Cyber Resilience – Ask the…

Article • Digital resilience

Healthcare cybersecurity: from basics to best practices

Building resilience for digitally driven healthcare: At the HETT (Healthcare Excellence Through Technology) North conference in Manchester, leading IT specialists highlighted the need for high levels of education, awareness and vigilance among healthcare staff in the fight to protect systems against cyberattack.

News • Patient data extraction, manipulation, poisoning

Experts highlight LLM cybersecurity threats in radiology

Integration of large language models (LLMs) in healthcare is still in its early stages, but expected to expand rapidly. Now, researchers point out potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities in radiology.

News • Adversarial robust image processing

Defense system protects medical digital twins from cyberattack

Medical digital twins can help predict diseases, but are vulnerable to cyberattacks that can lead to incorrect diagnoses. Researchers have developed a new defense system to address this threat.

News • Cybersecurity protocol

Protecting wireless medical implants from being hacked

Cyberhealth threats such as the hacking of a medical implant are of real concern as technology moves toward smart, wirelessly connected implants. A new security protocol aims to protect these devices.

News • Continuous glucose monitoring in traffic situations

Safe behind the wheel: Study shows impact of CGM in diabetic drivers

Periods of hypoglycemia in diabetes patients can cause impaired judgment and lead to traffic accidents. A new study shows that continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices can help mitigate this risk.

News • Prevention, detection, response

EU action plan to increase healthcare cybersecurity

Better protection against cybercrime, more efficient threat deterrence: The European Commission has presented an EU action plan to bolster the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers.

Relief for radiographers: The Get Up holding system for back-friendly repositioning

Discover in only one minute, how the Get Up holding system sustainably assists both patients and medical staff.

News • Security and surveillance software

AI risk detection for healthcare security and patient safety

Detection of patient falls, unauthorized intrusions on hospital premises, and more: A new suite of AI tools is designed to enhance healthcare security and patient safety surveillance.

News • Concerns about hurried adoption

Survey: Is medical AI taking over too quickly?

The pace of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in personalised medicine is unsettling for great parts of the public. A new survey reflects the worried state of mind in the UK.

Article • QC at AACC 2023

New risk-based quality control assessment for clinical labs

Juggling the cost of quality control (QC) resources versus the risk of testing error is a balancing act no clinical laboratory manager enjoys. It is an inexact process, itself prone to error, which can impact the operations of hospital labs and independent clinical testing companies. In the current resource-constrained healthcare environment, there is pressure to improve the cost effectiveness of…

News • Concerns over new law

How would a WhatsApp ban for doctors affect patient care?

UK law changes threaten the security of messaging apps – and their use in the NHS. Doctors warn that patient care will suffer if they can no longer use apps such as WhatsApp to share information.

Protecting patients and healthcare workers

In the last decade, regional and global health organizations have pushed for making safety a central pillar of procurement, with a directive that cost should not be a barrier. The crucial question is: How easy is that to implement? How can a confident decision be reached that protects patients and healthcare workers without straining costs?

Article • Project EU-JUST-CT

CT scans: systematic evaluation of benefits and risks

When is a CT scan justified, i.e. when do the benefits of a CT scan for the patient outweigh possible risks associated with radiation? Justification has been a major issue among radiologists ever since CT has become widely available and widely used. With regard to dose the answer is the well-known ALARA principle: “As low as reasonable achievable“. Now, the European coordinated action on…

Safety guaranteed, requirements fulfilled

Pharmaceutical research companies impose very high security standards on themselves for good reasons, as they are potential victims of cyberattacks and espionage attempts. This is no different at Boehringer Ingelheim. Its systems must be particularly secure, which means they need to meet high standards. The company checks this regularly. One way to ensure this is to separate the systems from the…

Article • Appeal to healthcare providers and medical device vendors

ECRI reports top 10 health technology hazards for 2023

ECRI’s annual top ten technology hazard list alerts hospitals and healthcare providers of situations, products, and procedures they need to diligently monitor and/or take steps to improve. This non-profit technology Pennsylvania research firm has worked for over 50 years to make healthcare safer. The list reflects the organization’s collective judgment about the health technology risks that…

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