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	<p style="text-align: justify !important;"><a href="https://innohealthmagazine.cominnovatiocuris/disha-act/">Healthcare data breaches</a> have risen nearly every year from 2010 through 2019 and the cybersecurity risks jeopardize hundreds of millions of patients records. Although physical theft used to be the data breach method of choice, now hacking has become the most prevalent method. This partly stems from more information being stored electronically and network servers becoming a more attractive hacking target.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">However, much like the rest of the world, healthcare organizations are shifting work to cloud services in order to improve accessibility and patient care. The migration of these workloads and moving valuable information such as PHI (personal health information) and PII (personally identifiable information) to the cloud has also led to cyber criminals taking a particular interest in the industry. Having shifted workloads to the cloud, healthcare organizations have highly connected systems that run the risk of being deeply affected even if the attack takes place on smaller,partial systems. In other words, a <a href="https://innohealthmagazine.comcybersecurity/the-vulnerability-of-medical-institutions-to-cyber-attacks/">cyber attack</a> in one place could bring down the entire system. In May2017, the <a href="https://innohealthmagazine.comissues/ransomware-epidemic/">WannaCry ransomware</a> attack forced multiple hospitals across the United Kingdom to turn away ambulances transporting patients and cancel surgeries that were within minutes of starting. Even basic processes like admitting patients and printing wrist bands were compromised.</p>
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	<p style="text-align: justify !important;">The number of <a href="https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/what-is-ransomware.jsp?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjbe_nYuJ4wIVQ5SPCh0vogWXEAAYASAAEgIsu_D_BwE&amp;ef_id=EAIaIQobChMIjbe_nYuJ4wIVQ5SPCh0vogWXEAAYASAAEgIsu_D_BwE:G:s&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc">ransomware</a> and other malware attacks is rising incredibly fast in the healthcare industry, putting human lives as well as critical data at risk.One of the key aspects making healthcare organizations a top target is the value of their data. Commonly, a single stolen credit card number yields an average $2,000 profit and quickly becomes worthless. Healthcare data, however, such as PHI or PII, is extremely valuable on the black market.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">A single PHI file, for example, can yield a profit of up to $20,000. This is mainly because it can take weeks or months for a healthcare data breach to be discovered, enabling cyber criminals to extract much more valuable data. Moreover, because healthcare data can contain dates of birth and Social Security numbers, it is much more difficult or even impossible to change, so thieves can take advantage of it fora longer period of time.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Data breaches cost the healthcare industry approximately $5.6 billion every year, according to Becker’s Hospital Review. The Breach Barometer Report: Year in Review additionally found that there was an average of at least one health data breach per day in 2016, attacks that affected more than 27 million patient records.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">The continued under investment in cybersecurity has left many so exposed that they are unable to even detect cyber attacks when they occur. While attackers may compromise an organization within a matter of seconds or minutes, it often takes many more weeks – if not months – before the breach is detected, damage is contained and defensive resources are deployed to prevent the same attack from happening again.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">As organizations seek to protect their patient information from these growing threats, demand for health informatics professionals who are familiar with the current state of cybersecurity in healthcare is on the rise.</p>
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	<p>“So, What is Wrong With the Picture?”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">The base question to ask is “Who would be interested in hacking patient data?” It is precisely this attitude together with the rat eat which healthcare refreshes its technology that exposes healthcare organizations to a high risk of cyber-attack. The fact that makes the industry appealing to hackers: ransom for money;denial of service for malice and money; stealing confidential data;compromising data; identity theft and compromising devices. The scale of disruption and impact to busy healthcare settings already operating at capacity caused by a cyber-attack needs no explanation. The reality covers the four main domains:</p>
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<li>Leadership: Ownership of the issue</li>
<li>Culture/Staff responsibility/awareness: Training and awareness of cybersecurity and its related implications</li>
<li>Policies and procedures: Understanding of business continuity processes and incident response procedures</li>
<li>General cybersecurity knowledge: Use of fundamental security processes that are currently followed within the organization to mitigate security breaches, e.g., use of USB, on- and off-boarding processes, password policies,organizational asset register,and so on.</li>
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	<p><strong>The Challenges</strong><br />
The newest cyber vulnerabilities are not necessarily an organization’s biggest cyber threat. Consequently, many common threats continue to be problematic in healthcare, including:</p>
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<li><strong><em>Malware and ransomware:</em></strong> Cyber criminals use malware and ransomware to shut down individual devices, servers or even entire networks. In some cases, a ransom is then demanded to rectify the encryption.</li>
<li><strong><em>Cloud threats:</em></strong> An increasing amount of protected health information is being stored on the cloud. Without proper encryption, this can be a weak spot for the security of healthcare organizations.</li>
<li><strong><em>Misleading websites:</em></strong> Clever cyber criminals have created websites with addresses that are similar to reputable sites. Some simply substitute .com for .gov, giving the unwary user the illusion that the websites are the same.</li>
<li><strong><em>Phishing attacks:</em></strong> This strategy sends out mass amounts of emails from seemingly reputable sources to obtain sensitive information from the users.</li>
<li><strong><em>Encryption blind spots:</em></strong> While encryption is critical for protecting the health data, it can also create blind spots where hackers can hide from the tools meant to detect breaches.</li>
<li><strong><em>Employee error:</em></strong> Employees can leave healthcare organizations susceptible to attack through weak passwords, unencrypted devices and other failures of compliance.</li>
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<p>Another growing threat in healthcare security is found in medical devices. As pacemakers and other equipment become connected to the internet, they face the same vulnerabilities as other computer systems.</p>
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	<p><strong>How are Hackers Achieving this, You Would Ask?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Hackers usually access information in one of two ways. They can try‘social hacking’, which means tricking a human being into giving oversensitive information or security credentials which in turn allows access to sensitive information. This could happen by tricking either someone who works directly for the provider, or an outside contractor. An unsophisticated example could be, ‘Hi, I am an IT provider for your company, and I need to carry out some maintenance, could you please provide these sensitive details for me?’. The second way is brute force:directly attacking a security system.</p>
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	<p><strong>Once Hackers Get Access to The Data, What Do They Do with It?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">In some cases, hackers access sensitive data, extract it, and lock it off. They can then sell it back to the company. If the company does not have backups, buying it back is probably the only viable option. The alternative is for them to lose all records of their patients which they will never be able to replace.Another possibility, is hackers stealing data and selling it to the public. The information may be sold to criminal groups on the dark web who wish to use sensitive information for blackmail or fraud purposes.</p>
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	<p><strong>What Can the Healthcare Industry Do to Mitigate Cyber Threats?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">The industry must realize that cybersecurity is human-centric. Gaining insight into the users&#8217; behavior, for example, or the flow of data in and out of the organization improves risk response.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Additionally, the industry should be aware that cybersecurity isn&#8217;t just the responsibility of the IT department: everyone should be aware of the risks, from management down to brand-new contract staff.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Healthcare security professionals need to understand the threats they face and the regulations they must comply with, and they must be provided with best practices for strengthening cybersecurity defenses. This means implementing comprehensive security awareness training that educates all people on current threats, red flags to look for in an email message or web link, how to avoid infection, and what to do in case of an active exploit. And since the threat landscape is constantly changing, training should be repeated and updated regularly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Furthermore, implementing the right cybersecurity measures, such data loss prevention, user behavior analytics, and endpoint security technologies, will further protect an organization&#8217;s infrastructure and patient data from ransomware attacks. By creating a system that guards the human point — where people interact with critical business data and intellectual property — and takes into account the intersection of users, data, and networks, the healthcare industry can improve its cyber threat protection.</p>
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	<p><strong>In Simple Terms: How Do We Improve Cybersecurity?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Due to the significant financial impact of data breaches in healthcare, health informatics and other professionals need to play an important role in ensuring that medical organizations remain secure. Individual healthcare organizations can improve their cybersecurity by implementing the following practices:</p>
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<li><strong>Establish a security culture:</strong> Ongoing cybersecurity training and education emphasize that every member of the organization is responsible for protecting patient data, creating a culture of security.</li>
<li><strong>Protect mobile devices:</strong> An increasing number of health care providers are using mobile devices at work. Encryption and other protective measures are critical to ensure that any information on these devices is secure.</li>
<li><strong>Maintain good computer habits:</strong> New employee on boarding should include training on best practices for computer use, including software and operating system maintenance.</li>
<li><strong>Use a firewall:</strong> Anything connected to the internet should have a firewall.</li>
<li><strong>Install and maintain anti-virus software:</strong> Simply installing anti-virus software is not enough. Continuous updates are essential for ensuring health care systems receive the best possible protection at any given time.</li>
<li><strong>Plan for the unexpected:</strong> Files should be backed up regularly for quick and easy data restoration. Organizations must consider storing this backed-up information away from the main system if possible.</li>
<li><strong>Control access to protected health information:</strong> Access to protected information should be granted to only those who need to view or use the data.</li>
<li><strong>Use strong passwords and change them regularly:</strong> The Verizon report found that 63 percent of confirmed data breaches involved taking advantage of passwords that were the default, weak or stolen. Healthcare employees should not only use strong passwords, but ensure they are changed regularly.</li>
<li><strong>Limit network access:</strong> Any software, applications and other additions to existing systems should not be installed by staff without prior consent from the proper organizational authorities.</li>
<li><strong>Control physical access:</strong> Data can also be breached when physical devices are stolen. Computers and other electronics that contain protected information should be kept in locked rooms in secure areas.</li>
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	<p><strong>How to Defend Against the Growing Threat?</strong><br />
Deterrence, prevention, detection and response all have their place.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Prevention is preferable to detection and reaction. But without data collection, an organization cannot successfully detect or react to anything.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Alerts or alarms should be designed to detect event sequences with potentially negative consequences. Statistical and anomaly detection methods are particularly good for these purposes, as are rule-based detection mechanisms.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Security information and event management or log management tools can augment data collection efforts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">In addition to deploying technology tools to help defend against and detect intrusions, it&#8217;s important to formally define roles and responsibilities for incident response. Organizations need to document procedures that specify what the response team should do if there&#8217;s an incident and test those procedures periodically.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">It&#8217;s not just one technology, it is multiple technologies in order to repel these highly sophisticated and organized attacks. That includes deploying SIEM, as well as multi factor authentication to enter critical systems.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">The Internet is increasingly a swamp. It&#8217;s no longer sufficient to just look at standard security logs. You need integrated security information event management that brings together network logs, users log, application logs and server logs, and looks for non obvious associations.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify !important;">To improve cybersecurity in health care, organizations need to hire informatics professionals who not only collect, manage and leverage data, but protect it as well. In addition, health data professionals need to on a continuous basis develop new strategies and best practices to ensure the safety of sensitive health data, protecting both the patient and organization from financial loss and other forms of harm.We know that reaching 100% security against cyber attacks is not realistic but, with a few steps, healthcare organizations can make sure that it&#8217;s too complex or unprofitable for threat actors to attack them, which will result in them moving on to another target.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify !important;"><em><strong>Kris Seeburn</strong> is an enterprise trainer and a member of Advisory Board of The New Security Foundation, Member of The American College of Forensic Examiners &amp; Institute of Forensics Science</em></p>
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	<p style="text-align: justify !important;"><em>McAfee’s researchers were able to modify the vital sign data in real-time providing false information to medical personnel by switching the heartbeat records from 80 beats a second to zero within five seconds. You would have woken up to news that Medstar patient records’ database was subject to ransom ware cyber attack and was asked to pay bitcoins. Unfortunately, the hospital did not have backup of medical records and in some cases, they had to turn away the patients. These incidents, unfortunately, are not stray incidents.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">There are various technologies converging and a rapid increase in machine-to-machine communications. It is predicted that by 2025, most hospitals will have the ability to network connect more than 90% of their devices. However, many hospitals are yet to make their data security systems extremely robust. Data privacy and data security are the two important pillars that need urgent consideration. Just as financial data is loved by the cyber criminals, so is health data becoming a gold-mine with the cyber offenders. Specially so when the hospitals are run on legacy systems and there is no dedicated framework or surveillance on their own data.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Personally, identifiable data is an indicator of an individual, such as name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.Several cyberattacks on medical institutions are initiated to extract the electronic health records (EHRs) of patients. These EHRs may contain their personal health information, medical history, diagnosis codes, billing information, etc., which can be exploited by the cyber offenders in various manners, for instance to get ransom from the medical institutions or to create fake IDs to buy medical equipment(s) or medication which can be resold or exclusively sold on prescription.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Take this example. On 12 May 2017, a global <a href="https://innohealthmagazine.comissues/ransomware-epidemic/">ransomware attack</a>, known as WannaCry affected more than 200,000 computers in at least 100 countries. The ransomware attack also affected 80 out of 236 trusts (medical institutions under NHS) and further 603 primary care and other National Health Service (“NHS”) organisations were infected with the ransomware virus including 595 general practitioners. The trusts which were affected with WannaCry ransomware faced issues like patient appointments being cancelled, computers being locked out, diversion of patients from accidents and emergency departments, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">As reported in the investigation report on the WannaCry ransomware attack on NHS, published by the National Audit Office (“NAO”, an independent parliamentary body in the United Kingdom), all NHS organisations infected with the WannaCry virus had unpatched or unsupported Windows operating systems. NHS Digital (a national provider of information, data and IT systems for commissioners, analysts and clinicians in health and social care in England) informed the NAO that the ransomware spread via the internet, including through the N3 network (the broadband network connecting all NHS sites in England), though there were no instances of the ransomware spreading via NHSmail (the NHS email system).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">In India, as reported by multiple news agencies, last year in the month of June, the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (a trust-run hospital) hospital, Mumbai (MGM Hospital) was affected by a similar cyber-attack where the hospital administrators found their systems locked and noticed an encrypted message by the attackers demanding ransom in Bitcoins to unlock it. It was reported that the MGM Hospital had lost 15 days’ data related to billing and patients’ history, though the hospital didn’t face any financial loss.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Once these cyber offenders have access to the EHRs, they hold the systems of the medical institutions hostage for ransom, by encrypting all the systems completely inaccessible and unusable for the victimised medical institutions. The vulnerability to such cyberattacks may account to various reasons, such as outdated digital infrastructure, medical personnel unaware or untrained about cyberattacks. Cyber offenders may gain access to medical institutions’ systems through various ways and sometimes as simple as (a) using a USB drive; (b) exploiting vulnerable or expired software, (c) stealing medical personnel’s mobile devices, (d) hacking email or (e) phishing, etc. It is time that our healthcare providers upgrade their technologies, networks, and understanding on this subject.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Regulatory bodies across the world have suggested / adopted guidelines and <a href="https://innohealthmagazine.comcybersecurity/cybersecurity-trends-challenges-threats-healthcare/">cybersecurity</a> processes and controls which help the medical institutions to mitigate cyber risks and vulnerabilities. In this article, we will be primarily focusing on various safeguards and standards put in place by the European Union and India to deal with such cyberattacks.</p>
<p><strong>SCENARIO IN EUROPE</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">As a part of the EU cybersecurity strategy, the European Commission standards to ensure necessary adopted the EU Network and Information Security Directive (“NIS Directive”) on 6 July 2016 and it came into force in August 2016. As the NIS Directive is an EU directive, every member state had to adopt a national legislation which would transpose the NIS Directive by 9 May 2018 and identify operators of essential services under the transposed law by 9 November 2018.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">The NIS Directive has three major parts to it (a) national capabilities, (b) crossborder collaborations and (c) national supervision of the critical sectors including health.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">(a) <strong>National Capabilities:</strong> The NIS Directive mandates every member state of the EU to have certain cybersecurity capabilities, e.g., it is a mandate for every member state to have a national Computer Security Incident Response Team (“CSIRT”).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">(b) <strong>Cross Border Collaborations:</strong> The NIS Directive encourages collaborations between EU member states like the EU CSIRT network, the NIS cooperation group, ENISA etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">(c)<strong> National Supervision of Critical Sectors:</strong> As per the NIS Directive, every member state shall supervise the cybersecurity of critical market sectors in their respective country including health sector.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Further, as a part of the NIS Directive the NIS cooperation group through ENISA has developed guidelines regarding (a) identification criteria of cyberattacks, (b) incident notification, (c) security requirements for Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), (d) mapping of operators of essential services (OES) security requirements for specific sectors including health and (e) audit and self-assessment frameworks for OESs and DSPs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">With a view to prescribe certain standards of safety and quality, three recognised EU standards organisations namely (a) the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), (b) the European Committee for Electro-technical Standardization (CENELEC) and, (c) the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) were set up. By setting common standards across EU, CEN, ETSI and CENELEC ensure protection of consumers, facilitate cross-border trade, ensure interoperability of goods/ products, encourage innovation and technological development, and include environmental protection and enable businesses to grow.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">The General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”) specifically define ‘data concerning health’, ‘genetic data’ and ‘biometric data’ and regards them as ‘special category of data’. This means that parties who are processing special category of data shall comply with additional higher safeguards and process it legitimately. Recital 53 of the GDPR states that special categories of personal data which merit higher protection should be processed for health-related purposes only.</p>
<p><strong>THE INDIAN SCENARIO</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Personal medical/health information in India is regarded as sensitive personal information as per the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal data or Information) Rules, 2011 (“Rules”).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">The Indian legislature took an important step for addressing issues relating to cybersecurity when it amended the Information Technology Act, 2000 in 2008, through which they established an Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), a national agency for incident response. CERT is primarily responsible for handling cybersecurity incidents occurring in India and analysing information related to cybercrimes, but among other things CERT is also indulged in issuing guidelines, advisories, vulnerability notes and white papers relating to information security practices, procedures, prevention, response and reporting of cyber incident.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">CERT-India has been entrusted with performing the following main functions (a) collecting, analysing and disseminating of information on cyber incidents, (b) forecasting and giving alerts on cybersecurity incidents, (c) laying down emergency measures for handling cyber security incidents, (d) coordinating cyber incident response activities, (e) issuing guidelines, advisories, vulnerability notes and white papers relating to information security practices, procedures, prevention, response and reporting of cyber incidents, and (f) performing any other functions relating to cybersecurity as may be prescribed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">CERT-India in the last five years or so has focused on making various institutions who are highly dependent on cyber/digital networks, i.e. are ‘cyber resilient’. Being cyber resilient allows these institutions to effectively anticipate the various threats and figure out the mechanisms of dealing with the cyberattacks. Anticipate, withstand, contain and recover are the 4 main contours of being cyber resilient.</p>
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<li>Anticipate: Maintain a state of informed preparedness to forestall compromises of mission/ business functions from adversary attacks</li>
<li>Withstand: Continue essential mission/business functions despite successful execution of an attack by an adversary</li>
<li>Contain: Localize containment of crisis and isolate trusted systems from untrusted systems to continue essential business operations in the event of cyberattacks</li>
<li>Recover: Restore mission/business functions to the maximum extent possible subsequent to successful execution of an attack by an adversary</li>
<li>Evolve: To change missions/business functions and/or the supporting cyber capabilities, to minimize adverse impacts from actual or predicted adversary attacks</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify !important;">To strengthen the framework and ensure that reasonable security practices and procedures are followed, the Department of Information Technology introduced certain rules. The rules require each and every corporate body including medical institutions who collect sensitive personal information to have security measures as documented in their security policy/programme which is considered to be a reasonable security practice, keeping in mind the nature of their business and considering the fact that they are collecting sensitive personal information. One such international standard as recommended under the Rules is the IS/ISO/IEC 27001.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Taking a step further, the Ministry of Health and Welfare has introduced a draft bill for Digital Information Security in Healthcare Act (“DISHA”). One of the key purposes of DISHA is to ensure reliability, data privacy, confidentiality and security of digital health data. DISHA prescribes that the storage of digital health data so collected would be held in trust for the owner and the holder of such data would be considered as the custodian of data, thereby making such holder responsible to protect privacy, confidentiality and security of data.</p>
<p><strong>To bring it all together:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Majority of the cyberattacks reported worldwide are caused due to reasons which sometimes are trivial and perhaps ignored more often, such as outdated Windows operating system patch, lack of proper antivirus or reasons such as phishing, lack of awareness among the people about cybersecurity, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">The EU, through GDPR has made data security an integral part of law and India is taking strong steps to set up a robust data protection and data security law. Various regulations, programmes, codes, standards, etc., discussed in this article are some key indicate steps that can be implemented.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Law is just one part to solve the issue. The real question is who is responsible for safety of our personal data, commercial data, data assets, etc.? We secure our houses with a lock, burglar alarms, video cams because the house owner wants to protect it. Similarly, individuals, organizations, healthcare personnel, hospitals and other institutions who collect health data for multiple reasons should be aware of various cyber-threats and must take steps to safeguard their networks and systems from such threats.</p>
<h2>About the author:</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;"><em><strong> Sharda Balaji</strong></em> is the founding partner of NovoJuris Legal, and along with being a qualified lawyer is also a company secretary and has been at the core of evolution of technology and IT laws in India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;"><em><strong>Manas Ingle</strong></em> is a legal associate at NovoJuris Legal and works as a technology lawyer, where he deals with various legal projects relating</p>
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	<p style="text-align: justify !important;">Likewise, the global trends, the growth of the Internet in India is incredibly fast-paced, with an estimated addition of 10 million active users each month. Along with the increase in the number of users, the adoption rate of going digital by various stakeholders in our society is also growing exponentially. Unfortunately, this also increases our vulnerability to potential hacks or security breaches that come from individual hackers to organized groups to even attacks from nation states. Cybersecurity, thus, entails protection of our cyberspace, and all the critical infrastructures like banking and finance, defense, healthcare, manufacturing, nuclear reactors, and commercial facilities from being the target to any sort of attack, damage, misuse or act of espionage.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">The healthcare industry is particularly vulnerable to cyber threats not least because of the minimal amount of investment they put in cybersecurity measures. Hospitals, insurance companies, pharmacies, developers/ owners of healthcare websites, manufacturers of medical devices, or handsets, or third-party vendors to which sensitive patient data gets shared; all represent a leaky pipeline through which hackers can enter a system and cause extensive damage. The types of attacks can include access to patient’s medical history, prescriptions, financial and personal details or using the Internet of Medical Things to disrupt implanted medical devices or devices like drug infusion pumps. Healthy cybersecurity practices have, therefore, never been more important than today when a ransomware attack like WannaCry has the potential to literally shut down a country’s (UK) National Health Service.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify !important;">According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN telecommunications agency, India ranked 23rd amongst 165 nations on the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) in 2017. GCI ranks nations for their commitment towards cybersecurity using various measures &#8211; legal, technical, organizational, capacity building, and cooperation. With the rapid rise in cyber threats, India’s growing investment in protecting its data is absolutely a positive development. Nevertheless, a quick look at the current status on cybersecurity and data protection laws in India highlights the gap we must fill in as we move towards complete digitizing of various infrastructures in the 21st century.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">For instance, it was last in 2000 when the legal provisions related to cybersecurity were formulated in the Information Technology Act (ITA) when the nature of threats revolved only around viral or malware attacks. The ITA was later amended in 2008 and now deals with cyber crimes such as hacking, tampering, data or identity theft, cheating, phishing, etc. Sections 43 and 63–74 provide provisions for civil and criminal prosecution in case of different cyber offenses. The ITA requires entities holding private data of users to maintain specified security standards and provides provisions to users for airing grievances in case of the data breach.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">India established its first cybersecurity policy &#8211; the National Cyber Security Policy (NCSP), in 2013, after much mayhem caused by Edward Snowden’s allegations of NSA snooping on India. The policy designated CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team), a national nodal agency to respond to and analyze incidents of cybersecurity breaches. CERT-In provides alerts of cybersecurity incidents, conducts emergency measures for handling such incidents, coordinates necessary response activities and issues guidelines, etc., regarding cybersecurity measures. In the case of a data breach, an organization holding confidential user data must report to CERT-In promptly.</p>
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	<p><strong>Healthcare specific provisions</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">While the above-mentioned regulations provide a general legal cybersecurity framework for all the organizations, no separate provisions are in place viz a viz the healthcare sector. India decided to fill in this gap last year when the Ministry of Health and Family Affair, the Government of India proposed the Digital Information Security in Healthcare Act (DISHA) and placed it in public domain on 21 March 2018 for comments by various stakeholders. DISHA aims to ensure reliability, data privacy, confidentiality, and security of digital health data. The act, applicable to entire India except for Jammu and Kashmir, establishes eHealth Authorities and Health Information Exchanges at the state and national levels while also outlining the guidelines on standardizing/ regulating the processes related to the collection, storing, transmission and use of digital health data (DHD) in India.</p>
<p>Accordingly, DHD means any electronic record of health-related information</p>
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<li>concerning the physical or mental health of a person</li>
<li>on any health service provided to an individual</li>
<li>on a donation of any body part of any bodily substance</li>
<li>derived from testing or examination of a body part or bodily substance</li>
<li>collected during providing health services</li>
<li>relating to details of the clinical establishment accessed by a person</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify !important;">DISHA also specifies the rights of the owner of digital health data, outlines the purposes for which DHD can be collected and explicitly mentions all clinical establishments holding DHD to be duty-bound in maintaining privacy and confidentiality of the patient’s data. Importantly, DISHA touches upon what constitutes a breach of digital health data, compensation in the event of one happening and what punishments an individual or a company might face if convicted of a cybercrime.</p>
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	<p><strong>Marching ahead</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify !important;">The breach of data far more often in the healthcare sector compared to other sectors highlights the value of information stored in digital health records. It is, therefore, important that cybersecurity takes precedence for all the healthcare providers. Proactive measures include identifying likely targets, securing and updating systems in a timely manner, constant monitoring for malware or security breaches and reinforcing good user behavior among the employees. Similarly, the response to data breach incidents needs to be swift to minimize the extent of damage when a cybercrime occurs. Like the adage, ‘prevention is better than cure’, the healthcare providers also have a necessary task ahead of themselves to up their security measures in accordance with the current legal framework, before a patient’s data or the trust gets compromised.</p>
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	<h2>About the author</h2>
<p><em><strong>Dr. Urvashi (Raheja) Bhattacharyya</strong> is a Senior Research Analyst at StudyMode. She indulges in machine-learning methods during office hours and enjoys writing about healthcare and education in her free time.</em></p>
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