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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Exec Summary: The Vive 2024 event is the premier event for Digital Health decision-makers, focusing on the business of healthcare. The event will feature keynote speakers, panel discussions, breakout sessions, and an expo hall showcasing the latest digital health technologies and solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In simplest terms, the legislation proposed advanced and accelerated payments to healthcare providers in the event of a cyber incident, if they meet minimum cybersecurity standards determined by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Hospital Leaders Recognize the Reputational, Financial, and Legal Risks of Cyberattacks In addition to the operational impacts, cyberattacks bring significant financial, legal, and reputational risks to healthcare organizations. Research shows cybersecurity events are a top-of-mind issue for executives.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Healthcare IT Today has been a partner with the HCP Conferences for a while now, but this week was the first time I was able to attend in person. The event has a unique reverse expo format where the health IT professionals sit at tables and the vendors go around visiting the tables. Good approach to cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

At this year’s ViVE2024 event, AI was still prevalent, however, the claims being made by vendors were much more realistic and attainable. This is a clear sign that the application of AI in healthcare is maturing…at least a little. In the exhibit hall, larger booths were more noticeable.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This event brings together Oracle’s users and partners in once place and provides a venue for the company to make big announcements about what’s happening at Oracle. The event was being held at the Venetian conference center and Caesar’s Forum. Especially since it was a short 20 min drive to the event for me.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ryan Witt, Healthcare Cybersecurity Leader at Proofpoint The Internet of Medical Things, or IoMT, is a deep web of interconnected devices that increasingly plays a vital role in care delivery. About Ryan Witt Ryan Witt is a healthcare cybersecurity leader at the cybersecurity company Proofpoint.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2024

What other downtime issues should we be working on to prevent a similar widespread event across healthcare? and What places do you think healthcare is vulnerable to downtime? There are many lessons here even for those fortunate enough to not be impacted by this event or the vendor at the center of it.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This was a really great event because it had basically everyone on the full continuum of interoperability and identity all in one place. Plus, the event was designed in a way that you could easily connect and talk with a wide variety of experts in these areas. More details to come soon.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Finally, it is important to understand that all of these best practices must not be approached at a fixed point in time or a one-time event, but rather as a continuous process. Proactive risk and vulnerability management is a form of threat prevention, and prevention is the best medicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 3, 2023

Making users aware of what the adversary is doing, testing their awareness, and practicing what to do in the event of an incident must become standard behaviors in the work environment. This includes all levels in the organization including the board of directors, partners, and all stakeholders in the success of business.

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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. On the one hand, they have no choice but to rely on third-party vendors––the ongoing digitization of healthcare would be impossible without them.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Lance Reid, CEO at Telcion In the current landscape of increasing cyber threats, healthcare organizations must implement multiple layers of security to protect patient data effectively. Pratik Maroo, Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Zensar The first step is to assess its vulnerabilities and strengths.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Read more… Working Together for Stronger Healthcare Cybersecurity. Erik Decker at Intermountain Health and Ed Gaudet at Censinet sat down with John to discuss two initiatives to encourage collaboration among cybersecurity stakeholders, improve visibility into cybersecurity risks, and fight back against cyberattacks.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2024

In the unfortunate event a provider is hacked, their ability to care for their patients may be compromised, patient privacy is at risk, and their reputations within their local communities are damaged.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Cybersecurity live events, security bulletins, personalized content, prizes (for submitting phishing emails), and implementing a Cybersecurity Champions Program are all tactics I’ve seen employed that increase engagement across staff to help reduce risks, increase awareness, and strengthen a company’s best line of defense.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

As always, there have been a lot of new products and partnerships announced at the event, with a heavy emphasis on generative AI, and we wanted to try and cover as much as we could for the Healthcare IT Today community. You can also visit our HIMSS23 page to see all our coverage of health IT’s biggest event.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Given the vast quantities of data stored in each of these systems, it can be difficult for teams to reliably monitor all access events and suspicious activities. This means healthcare entities must develop autonomous threat detection programs to assist staff in securing sensitive PHI.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

How can we maintain operations even in the event of recurring attacks? This is the right track for every industry, but especially so for healthcare. The recent attack is just the latest to show that cybercriminals won’t stop targeting healthcare organizations anytime soon. That’s plain reality.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For healthcare organizations, this is critical to prevent interruptions to patient care or breaches of sensitive health information. With strong endpoint protection, healthcare providers can ensure that even in the event of an attempted breach, medical devices and data systems remain secure and operational.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Shyam Rajagopalan, Co-Founder and CTO at Infinitus Systems Healthcare organizations need to implement several key technologies to enhance their security posture, including encryption for all patient data in transit and at rest, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to add an extra layer of security.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Mike Donahue, Chief Delivery Officer at CloudWave To address potential vulnerabilities in connected medical devices and the Internet of Things within the healthcare ecosystem, healthcare organizations should go beyond their IT Incident Response plan and consider adopting a medical device cybersecurity approach that prioritizes patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the event cyber protections fail, patient data can be exposed — violating compliance laws including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which carries sizable fines — and brings significant operational consequences. They’re already on the same team. The stakes are high to succeed.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Lesson 2: Don’t Get Caught Negotiating Liability After a Breach has Occurred, Contracting is the Critical Stage for Negotiating Liability Considering the resources on the line in the event of a breach—currently a total average cost of $10.1

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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. Hackers are finding holes in the gaps created by fragmented systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 11, 2024

In other words, how likely will this event happen, and how much will it hurt? Once identified, these risks should be prioritized based on their likelihood of occurring and the potential severity of their consequences. Mitigating these risks requires a comprehensive approach. Implementing safeguards against device malfunctions is crucial.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2023

healthcare workers found that 22% said their organization doesn’t strictly enforce cybersecurity protocols , while 31% said they weren’t sure what to do in the event a security breach takes place. A recent Salesforce survey of 400 U.S.

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JUNE 5, 2024

Lessons Learned – Preventing Further Incidents As data-rich entities with countless systems, portals, and networks available for cybercriminals to exploit, healthcare organizations will always be a prime target for hackers. About Chuck Suitor Chuck Suitor is a healthcare information technology executive with over 35 years of experience.

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JULY 6, 2022

Implementation experience with enterprise security solutions such as Wireless Application Firewalls, Intrusion Protections and Detection Systems, Network Access Controls and Security Information Event Management solutions. Cloud Security experience in support of AWS, GCP, and MS Azure cloud hosting environments.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Seamless access to data from multiple locations and devices is crucial as this facilitates better collaboration and efficiency among healthcare professionals. In the event of a data loss or system failure, healthcare institutions should prioritize having robust backup and recovery systems in place to ensure the continuity of patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Additionally, offerings like cyber insurance can help offset some of the cost to companies in the event of an attack, but like any insurance, the best policy is the one an organization doesn’t need to fall back on.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

Vik Krishnan, President at TeleVox In 2024, healthcare facilities will go beyond simple patient engagement by implementing a Patient Relationship Management system that helps across the entire patient journey.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As hospitals implement the digitization to comply with these regulations, they’ll reduce adverse product recall and inventory events and falsified medical product use. According to Forrester, labor shortages will double the medication error rate among providers. Most often in today’s environment, it’s the former.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2024

By reducing IT costs, Pure Storage is helping Canadian healthcare organizations free up budget and IT resources for other innovation and improvement projects. The company is working on a project in Newfoundland to help the province be more resilient against cyber-attacks and to minimize downtime in the event an attack is successful.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

This acts as a catalyst for the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to address safety risk monitoring to free up healthcare professionals (HCPs) from administrative tasks while interacting with their patients.

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CiscoHealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Today, Shanti Gidwani is Cisco’s national director for healthcare in Canada — but in a former life she was a Registered Nurse. As we approach the biggest Health IT event.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Today, I’m Cisco’s national director for healthcare in Canada — but in a former life I was a Registered Nurse. As we approach the biggest Health IT event of the year, I have a few thoughts on the upcoming conference from a clinician’s perspective. My predictions on the evolution of virtual care.

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