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74 CIO / HEALTH IT Biden signs executive order to improve cybersecurity: 4 details By Hannah Mitchell P resident Joe Biden signed an executive or- der to modernize the nation's cybersecurity infrastructure and develop a concrete cyber incident response plan May 12. "Today, the cost of insecure technology is borne at the end by the victims in incident response — in in- cident response and cleanup, and small businesses, schools, hospitals and local governments bear the brunt of these costs," a senior administration offi- cial said in a May 12 news briefing. e executive order will address cybersecurity in four ways: 1. Protect federal networks. e SolarWinds data breach demonstrated that the most basic cybersecurity prevention and response measures were not systemically rolled out across federal agencies. e executive order will roll out a set of high-impact cyber defenses that make it harder for malicious actors to compromise and op- erate on a hacked network. 2. Improve the security of commercial soware. Commercial soware will be modernized in three ways. First, baseline security requirements will be established. Second, federal money will be used to jumpstart the market for secure soware by requir- ing that all soware meet these standards in nine months. ird, a response outline will be developed so that the federal government is in a position to respond quickly. 3. Address barriers to information sharing. Federal agencies cannot defend what they cannot see, the official said. IT providers who sell to the government are required to report breaches rapidly and share cyber threat information, which the gov- ernment will share with Americans. 4. Establish a cyber incident review board. e board will convene following a significant cyber incident and make concrete recommenda- tions for improving cybersecurity moving forward. e board will have a private sector co-chair, ref- erencing the administration's focus on partnering with the private sector on cybersecurity. n Cancer software security breach hits 40 health systems: Yale New Haven Health, Lifespan & more By Jackie Drees Y ale New Haven (Conn.) Health was one health system among at least 40 affected by a cybersecurity breach on cancer care software company Elekta, according to an April 23 Fox61 report. "Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven is among the many hos- pitals nationwide that have been impacted by software issues since April 20 at Elekta, the company that provides the software to run lin- ear accelerators for radiation treatment of cancer patients," a Yale New Haven Health spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Becker's. The health system said it communicated with patients about treatment interruptions as a result of the incident. It also returned to regular op- erations in late April. At least 40 health systems across the U.S. have been affected by the breach and Elekta's subsequent software issues, according to Fox61. Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan and New Bedford, Mass.-based South- coast Health also rescheduled radiation treatment appointments for some of their cancer patients this month due to the incident. Elekta discovered the cyberattack April 6 and restored all of its services April 9, a company spokesperson told Becker's, adding that it did not find any evidence that patient information was compromised. n Doctor on Demand, Grand Rounds wrap multibillion-dollar merger: 5 details By Jackie Drees T elehealth provider Doctor on Demand and clinical naviga- tion platform Grand Rounds completed their merger, the companies said May 11. Five details: 1. Doctor on Demand and Grand Rounds announced plans to merge March 16. The company will offer virtual primary care, specialty care, chronic condition management and primary care services. 2. Under the deal, the companies formed an integrated, multibil- lion-dollar virtual care company. 3. Grand Rounds was last valued at $1.34 billion in a mid-2020 financ- ing round, while Doctor on Demand is valued at about $820 million, according to CNBC. 4. Grand Rounds CEO Owen Tripp will serve as CEO of the expanded virtual care business. 5. Rounding out the rest of the executive team are Robin Glass as president; Nupur Srivastava as chief product officer; Gabe Cortes as CFO; Wade Chambers as chief technology officer; Ami Parekh as chief health officer; Ian Tong as CMO; and Jim O'Gorman as chief people officer. n