Health IT Security March 1, 2022
OCR director Lisa J. Pino urged healthcare organizations to prioritize cybersecurity in 2022 as cyberattacks burden the sector.
Office for Civil Rights (OCR) director Lisa J. Pino urged healthcare organizations to prioritize cybersecurity in 2022 in a recent blog post on HHS’s website. Healthcare data breaches are still occurring on an almost daily basis.
HHS appointed Pino, a former senior executive service official at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and former executive deputy commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, as the OCR’s new director in September 2021.
With an extensive background in cyber breach mitigation efforts, experts predicted that the new leadership would bring new focus areas for OCR, including additional data breach management...