Healthcare IT News February 24, 2022
Kat Jercich

The NIST guide is intended to help identify risks associated with remote patient monitoring architecture and ensure healthcare organizations are partnering with appropriate telehealth platform providers.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence published its final guidance this week on securing telehealth and remote patient monitoring ecosystems.

The guide is intended, according to NCCoE, to help identify risks associated with RPM architecture and ensure healthcare organizations are partnering with appropriate telehealth platform providers.

“While [healthcare delivery organizations] do not have the ability to manage and deploy privacy and cybersecurity controls unilaterally, they retain the responsibility to ensure that appropriate controls and risk mitigation are applied,” wrote researchers.

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