Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In the first quarter of 2023, hospitals and health systems were the number one target of cybersecurity threats due to the large amount of valuable patient information their electronic health records (EHRs) possess. About HEAL Security HEAL Security is transforming the landscape of healthcare cybersecurity worldwide.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

David Sides, CEO at NextGen Healthcare (NextGen) graciously agreed to sit down with Healthcare IT Today for an impromptu interview. NextGen Mobile App The team at Venice Family Clinic takes care of many unhoused patients and they depend on NextGen’s mobile app to add notes into their EHR. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Our latest topic for the Healthcare IT Today community was the topics that leaders can’t afford to ignore.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. and NIST CSF 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2019

Not long ago, I shared the results of a survey concluding that healthcare organizations generally felt pretty confident about the state of their cybersecurity defenses, despite having had WannaCry wipe the floor with them just two years before. The survey, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to tell us about new innovations in these fields. Big News From the ONC Meeting: QHINs, TEFCA, and HTI-1.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. NextGen’s Investments in Mobile, Cybersecurity, and Interoperability. Read more… A Guide to Proactive Healthcare Cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. A more practical approach is to strategically organize, securely store, and seamlessly retrieve EHRs using smart records management systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2021

On top of this alphabet soup are the technology myths that persist – like what really causes EHR […]. Mix them together and you have a mess that is not unlike what you get with a 2-year-old in the same room as wooden alphabet blocks.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Working Together for Stronger Healthcare Cybersecurity. Read more… Why Greenway Is Emphasizing EHR Optimization.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The following is a guest article by Pukar Hamal, Founder and CEO at SecurityPal While Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have made managing data easier, they’ve also become a prime target for cybercriminals. This highlights the urgent need to protect patient information by implementing robust cybersecurity measures.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Importance of Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare cybersecurity is vital and is becoming more important every day because medical organizations are continuing to rely on hospital information systems like electronic health records (EHRs) and physician order-entry systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2024

.” “Cybersecurity is what keeps me up at night and that’s why we have rapidly rolled out enhancements in this area and we will continue to do that because it is CRITICAL” “The past 3yrs have been the most productive at Greenway. We have launched many new products. How was the ReEngage conference?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2024

For example, Electronic Health Records (EHR) have become the new standard system of logging and storing patient information, and this proliferation of digitally stored data is making compliance management increasingly challenging.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But just like comparing different types of aircraft, the options for EHR solutions are widely separated in terms of complexity. The right cloud-based EHR solution is ideal for underserved and isolated providers. Rural healthcare administrators need a modern system to help them navigate the challenges they regularly encounter.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For the 26th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, and we’re taking a look back at the last decade of Health IT. Hard to believe that it’s almost 2020, but as we enter the new decade join us as we look back.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Within healthcare, the technology and expertise exist to help providers, payers, public health, health information exchanges, and healthcare IT companies exchange data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. According to an investigation by ProPublica and German radio and TV network Bayerischer Rundfunk, medical data of more than 5MM U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

He continued, “As a long-time CloudWave customer, we know that having a single partner for services delivery of our cloud-hosted applications and our on-premises cybersecurity systems and support simplifies our IT operations significantly.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

Protecting Data Through Stronger Cybersecurity and Network Resilience With the increasing use of technology in healthcare, cybersecurity has become a critical concern. In 2022, the healthcare industry rose to the second most attacked industry in the United States and third most attacked globally.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

More on why that event is going to be big later and why I’m sad Colin will be there covering it for Healthcare IT Today instead of me. Check out what Seema Verma said about Oracle Health’s desire to have their AI assistant be EHR agnostic. Especially if EHR vendors resist that approach.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2022

For all its good and ill, meaningful use drove action and adoption of EHR in healthcare. However, the key to change was healthcare organizations having a common goal. What made the difference? Ok, $36 billion in stimulus money helped.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Lastly, most healthcare IT expenditure over the last ten years has been focused on digitizing patient records, and investment in cybersecurity capability has lagged other industries. Threat actors know healthcare is a prime target for extortion and target them accordingly.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for these answers. The following is what they had to say on how to stay safe and can be used as a little check list for your healthcare cybersecurity efforts. Updating cybersecurity software regularly is essential against digital threats.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights into this matter. We asked them – with this ongoing era of increasing cyber threats, what measures are organizations implementing or should be implementing to strengthen the cybersecurity of healthcare systems and protect patient data ?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In 2023 alone, healthcare organizations saw a consistent month-over-month increase in attack attempts of 13%. About Mohammad Waqas Mohammad Waqas is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Healthcare at Armis with over a decade of experience in the healthcare cybersecurity industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Healthcare organizations often operate on disparate electronic health record (EHR) systems, each with their own unique structure and data format. Additionally, the absence of universally accepted standards impedes the seamless flow of information between healthcare providers, payers, and other stakeholders.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Cyber Resilience in Healthcare Cyber resilience refers to an organization’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyberattacks. According to the World Economic Forum , in 2023, the healthcare industry reported the most expensive data breaches across any industry, at an average cost of $10.93

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2024

All because of one faulty update, mass amounts of flights were delayed and canceled, businesses such as banks or news broadcasts were forced to temporarily close, and most importantly, vital operations such as government agencies, emergency services, and healthcare organizations were also impacted.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Healthcare systems in the clinical setting can immensely benefit from risk evaluation and asking the following questions: What if healthcare providers can’t access patient data when they are using electronic health records (EHR) systems to connect with patients?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 29, 2024

One of the most pressing imperatives for healthcare organizations is to bolster their cybersecurity defenses. The digitization of patient records and the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) have ushered in unprecedented efficiencies but have also exposed vulnerabilities.

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