The European arm of the world’s largest health IT membership organization, HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), has held its HIMSS Europe and Health 2.0 Conference in Spain, with upfront participation by GMV. Julio Vivero, International Business Partner in GMV’s Secure e-Solutions sector and secretary of the healthcare subgroup of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO), moderated the panel discussion “Securing Data, Protecting Privacy”.

This panel tackled such aspects as driving a cultural change to ensure the healthcare sector offers the best cybersecurity guarantees while also making sure safety always overrides security.

Other issues addressed were the Konfido project, focusing on the creation of a paradigm to overcome the limitations of epSOS and ensure the secure inner- and cross-border exchange, storage and overall handling of healthcare data (medical records) among EU member states, and security in network-connected medical devices.

Another issue tabled was the need of considering cybersecurity right from the start of any development, and the creation of a cybersecurity certification or stamp to vouch for this.

Julio Vivero shared his knowledge as editor of the healthcare report drawn up by the European-Commission brokered public-private partnership, ECSO, whose aims include pinpointing and bringing out cybersecurity enablement needs to drive EU growth and employment and achieve greater cybersecurity for EU citizens.