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The following is a guest article by Rob Shavell, CEO at DeleteMe Healthcarecybersecurity is currently experiencing explosive growth. Healthcare was the most breached industry in 2024, and UnitedHealth is still sending breach notices about the Change Healthcare attack, which exposed the data of over 190 million people last year.
A S$20 million grant from the National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) has been awarded to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Imperial College London to develop ways to better protect healthdata and wearable devices.
Consulting which looked into the cybersecurity landscape of the region and how policies and other measures apply in the rising remote care segment. WHY IT MATTERS Healthcarecybersecurity frameworks across APAC nations, the report noted, are "not fully adapted" to remote care solutions nor are these harmonised across jurisdictions.
It’s time for HHS to mandate and enforce rigorous, prescriptive cybersecurity standards. First and foremost, if you’re treating patients, there should be a clear mandate for certain minimum cybersecurity standards. Here I agree – we can use all the help we can get.
When it comes to cybersecurity, it is important for organizations to take a proactive approach and implement strong safeguards to protect against potential threats. Healthcarecybersecurity refers to the measures and practices put in place to protect sensitive data and systems within the healthcare industry.
The following is a guest article by Heather Randall, PhD, Chief Compliance Officer at TrustCommerce Regardless of whether the information is clinical, financial, or demographic, patients are increasingly worried about the possibility that their personal data could be compromised.
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 healthcarecybersecurity efforts. Recovery – is the ability for hybrid cloud assets to recover, minimizing downtime and data loss.
In addition, lawmakers can aid the healthcare industry by clarifying that discovering vulnerabilities in good faith does not constitute a breach. Otherwise, the healthcare industry loses a significant advantage in identifying and fixing vulnerabilities before cyberattacks occur.
The first is a massive wave of post-pandemic investment in digital health, compounding the existing growth of network-enabled third-party partnerships. Think wearable medical devices that transmit healthdata directly to a clinic, but also less flashy examples—outsourced printer management, for example.)
Perform Vendor Risk Assessments Given the prevalence of data leaks in the healthcare sector, it’s essential to utilize a cybersecurity framework that considers risks brought to your organization by external parties. For example, suppose your hospital wants to use a new SaaS application that stores sensitive data.
Department of Defense is doing with its CMMC program that will require independent cybersecurity assessments of large and small defense contractors that work with sensitive information. Healthdata should be protected by a similar assessment requirement for health plans and providers to receive federal funds.
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Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC). For example, caregivers can supplement care delivery with predictive care plans to drive improved outcomes.
This is because healthdata continues to move away from the barriers of manual approach and towards online platforms. For example, a report from Sophos found that 66% of healthcare organizations reported ransomware attacks last year, jumping from 34% in 2020. Jamie Blackport, Head of Privacy Hub by Datavant at Datavant.
As the cellular chips get much lower and lower cost, all devices are going to be integrated with cellular to truly enable home healthcare. Brian Golumbeck, HealthcareCybersecurity Leader at Optiv We believe that securing AI is the second thing in line behind AI. That’s one part of the story.
Additionally, this plan should outline, for example, whether to divert patients to another working facility or reschedule appointments. A contingency plan is also necessary for organizations to efficiently switch to manual systems if a breach occurs for tasks such as patient intake, lab orders, billing, charting, etc.
Christian Hardahl, Global Health Care Solutions Manager at SAS Patients push to own their healthdata. Patients will increasingly demand to own their health and social data and only make it available to the resources they choose. I see this gaining more traction in 2024.
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