Healthcare IT News December 6, 2021
At the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, consultant Alissa Knight discussed the findings of her recent white paper, which explores vulnerabilities in FHIR API implementations.
This October, cybersecurity expert Alissa Knight released a white paper in partnership with API threat protection vendor Aproov exploring how healthcare’s so-called last mile remains vulnerable to attacks.
The report, called “Playing With FHIR,” was “the largest unveiling of vulnerabilities in the history of the healthcare industry since the first electronic healthcare system came online in the 1960s,” said Knight in her keynote at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Monday. (HIMSS is Healthcare IT News’ parent company.)
And its release, she noted, made an appropriately large splash.
“While extremely controversial, [the white paper]...