Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2024

According to a recent report , 35% of all third-party breaches affected healthcare organizations in 2023, which is more than any other sector. With so much at stake, healthcare companies need to take proactive steps to fortify their defenses against cyber threats and safeguard the trust placed in them by millions of patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Importance of Cybersecurity in Healthcare The healthcare sector is uniquely vulnerable to cybersecurity breaches. 2023 was a record year, with 114 data breaches of 100,000 or more records reported to The HIPAA Journal. Cybercriminals are drawn to healthcare data as bees are to honey.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In 2023 so far, the breaches reported have affected 88 million patients, already a 60% increase compared to last year. Whether you need HIPAA, OSHA, SOC 2, or all three, your compliance program is fully customizable. These practices should happen regularly across an enterprise to prevent future attacks.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This challenge is incredibly daunting for small businesses in the healthcare sector, which are more vulnerable to the severe impacts of data breaches. A 2023 Cyber Readiness Report from Hiscox found that 41% of SMBs were victims of at least one successful cyberattack in the past year.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

The following is a guest article by Brian Selfridge, Healthcare Cybersecurity & Risk Leader at CORL Technologies. In 2023, healthcare organizations face an impossible paradox. Worse, these attacks are sometimes threatening patient safety, and causing regulatory non-compliance with HIPAA because of lost or stolen data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

The US Senate heard the weak excuses of the United Healthcare CEO who admitted Change Healthcare had not secured its Citrix systems with multifactor authentication (MFA) even though they had a written policy to do so, and that they failed to notify data breach victims by the HIPAA and state data breach law deadlines.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Censinet’s unique risk exchange enables providers, payers, and vendors to collaboratively manage third party and enterprise risk, continuously improving risk posture in real-time and strengthening cybersecurity across all healthcare organizations.” . Originally announced January 11th, 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As 2023 uncovered some less-than-optimal situations where automation and AI were at odds on either side of the fence, my hope is in 2024 that deeper connectivity and collaboration will make those solutions obsolete in some form or fashion.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

2023 was a tipping point for telehealth treatment. Ellen DaSilva, Co-Founder and CEO at Summer Health 1) The portability of data to deeply understand patients has been severely restricted (mostly by HIPAA but I won’t go on the record against it), so there’s a lot of information we’ll never be able to meld.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

Anika Heavener, Vice President of Innovation and Investments at The SCAN Foundation Health equity continues to be a hot topic in 2023 but even with all the advancements in healthcare technology, older marginalized adults still aren’t getting the care they deserve. What’s contributing to the delay?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2024

Key regulations like HIPAA have yet to be modernized to address potential AI uses. In December 2023, President Joe Biden issued an executive order for HHS to lead policy and regulatory efforts to pave the way for safe, secure, and trustworthy AI use in healthcare settings.

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