EPHA Briefing on Cyber Security and Health Technologies

This briefing outlines the ways in which technological advances are rapidly changing the delivery of health services and examines the threats posed to security in the face of malfunction and/or deliberate attack.


As noted in the EPHA briefing on data protection reform, the immediate problem presented by these technologies is the threat to privacy and the protection of personal information. However, the security risk presented – be it through malfunction or deliberate attack – is less widely recognised.

Regulation of security measures has not kept pace with the rapid development of this field, neither in legislation regarding cyber security and data protection more generally, nor in health policy responses.

- EPHA Briefing on Cyber Security

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Last modified on March 20 2013.