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

JANUARY 30, 2025

Assessing business functions, addressing vulnerabilities, and developing contingencies cannot be viewed as a one-time event or an inconvenience done to check a box. Stakeholders across every part of your organization need to embrace the value of awareness and repetition.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

It’s new approaches and ideas like these that will build a skilled workforce that is ready to protect the healthcare delivery system from existing and future cybersecurity threats. Here I agree – we can use all the help we can get.

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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 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

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

JUNE 1, 2023

Services should include: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Dark Web Monitoring Vulnerability & Threat Management Log messages are the most useful data type to collect.

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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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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 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

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 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

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

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

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

JULY 6, 2022

Often interface with information technology peers, leadership and business relationship managers to understand, design, and improve cybersecurity as it relates to the various organizational lines of business. Credentials and Experience: High School Diploma/GED. 12 years of cyber security architecture experience.

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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

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

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

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

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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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

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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

RTLS platforms can serve as centralized hubs for AI-driven actionable insights at every RTLS journey phase, forecasting events like staff duress occurrences, asset restocking needs, and staff allocation and scheduling optimizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

There is also the potential for virtual AI agents to be used increasingly, as an accessible way for patients to report safety events, especially in layman’s terms. |To However, operationally, it needs to make sense for the challenges in your organizations and be cost effective.

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