Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Date Submitted: May 8, 2023
Open Peer Review Period: May 8, 2023 - Jul 3, 2023
Date Accepted: Aug 16, 2023
(closed for review but you can still tweet)
Strengthening Cybersecurity for Patient Data Protection in Europe
ABSTRACT
The healthcare sector experiences 76% of cybersecurity breaches due to basic web application attacks, miscellaneous errors, and system intrusions, causing health data to be compromised or health services to be disrupted. The European Commission proposed the European Health Data Space (EHDS) in 2022 to enhance care delivery and improve patients' lives by providing all EU citizens with control over their personal health data in a private and secure environment. The European Union has taken an important step in homogenising the health data environment of the European health ecosystem, though more attention needs to be paid to keeping the health data of EU citizens safe and secure within the EHDS. The pooling of health data across countries can have tremendous benefits, yet may also become a target for cybercriminals. State-of-the-art security measures are a must and the current EHDS proposal contains insufficient measures to warrant a cybersecure and resilient environment.
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