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JANUARY 12, 2024

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.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

For example, a system that stores passwords for an electronic health record system but does not contain any health information itself. A risk analysis must include all systems, not only the systems that process health information, because other systems could be compromised to allow access to those containing health information.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

As an example, a health system with an annual revenue of $2.5 billion and average IT landscape complexity and threat exposure with theoretically perfect cybersecurity maturity ratings for all control areas other than vulnerability management processes presents an estimated $2.7 In this example scenario, spending just under $5.5

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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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MARCH 17, 2023

AI tools can help healthcare organizations analyze large amounts of data and identify patterns that inform clinical decision-making. By leveraging ML/AI, healthcare organizations can provide personalized patient care, reduce the risk of medical errors, and optimize clinical outcomes.

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JULY 10, 2024

The following is a guest article by Mary Lou Prevost, Group VP at Splunk Recently, we’ve witnessed a global increase of cyberattacks across the healthcare sector, including insurance providers, hospitals, and other services critical to maintaining health. critical infrastructure.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

An example of this is when a Health Service Executive (HSE) employee opened an Excel attachment that was unknowingly infected with malware , “ultimately enabling Conti ransomware to be deployed throughout 80 percent of HSE’s IT environment two months later.”

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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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JUNE 1, 2023

For example, Lloyd’s of London recently announced its coverages would no longer include cyber attacks from nation-states such as Russia and China. An example of this would be ensuring you are logging Event 4104, Powershell Script Block Logging.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

For example, conducting a comprehensive information security assessment every year before annual budgeting activities can help ensure any newly identified vulnerabilities are addressed within the upcoming fiscal year. Business resilience efforts should be performed regularly and executed strategically.

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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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JANUARY 20, 2020

Though the Internet of Things (IoT) is proving its value in many industries, perhaps the most significant benefits to consumers can be found in healthcare. Here’s a prime example: Health organizations can deploy IoT to remotely monitor patients’ blood […].

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

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.

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

The recent news of medical facilities halting operations due to cyberattacks highlights just how important it is for healthcare cybersecurity professionals to properly discover, track, and manage all of the devices on a facility’s network, including medical devices.

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MARCH 21, 2025

The cloud can be part of “continued innovation,” with the adoption of AI being an obvious example. You can’t just do what you see other companies doing, but must understand your workloads and use of data in order to choose an optimal payment model.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Think wearable medical devices that transmit health data directly to a clinic, but also less flashy examples—outsourced printer management, for example.) The first is a massive wave of post-pandemic investment in digital health, compounding the existing growth of network-enabled third-party partnerships.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Healthcare systems in the U.S. In 2022, for example, the combination of COVID-19, labor shortages, and inflation resulted in one of the worst financial years ever for U.S. If that sounds low, it’s because it is; multiple studies have found that enterprises spend anywhere from 10% to 20% of their IT budgets on security on average.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

For example, a report from Sophos found that 66% of healthcare organizations reported ransomware attacks last year, jumping from 34% in 2020. In 2023, health systems must make cybersecurity a top priority, otherwise, they will be putting patient data at risk.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Governments are starting to act in response to the growing amount of cyber threats in the healthcare industry. For example, New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced a statewide proposal that calls for healthcare facilities to strengthen and protect their networks, which are critical to providing patient care.

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JUNE 20, 2024

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, Healthcare Cybersecurity Leader at Optiv We believe that securing AI is the second thing in line behind AI. That’s one part of the story.

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MARCH 21, 2025

For example, the Ohio Data Protection Act protects companies from claims they did not implement adequate controls, as demonstrated by providing documentation for the security program. Some states have laws that create a safe harbor if you can demonstrate that youve implemented controls that meet a standard of practice.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

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.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Healthcare systems are also vulnerable to third-party risks, such as site-to-site VPN tunnels with lab testing partners. Sophisticated threat actors may seek to attack these more vulnerable partners as an entry point into healthcare networks.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

Different Segments, Different Threats The healthcare industry consists of diverse segments, each facing distinct cybersecurity challenges. Hospitals and clinics often operate with legacy systems and a broad attack surface due to the high number of connected devices.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. When decommissioning healthcare systems to archive legacy data, there are often significant tradeoffs.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

The 2023 PATCH Act requires manufacturers to meet criteria for the cybersecurity and transparency of their products and to support them with security patches across their full lifecycles. For example, the U.S. In 2024, government intervention will continue.

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MAY 29, 2024

Training healthcare staff to recognize and respond to phishing attempts, implementing robust access controls and encryption protocols, and conducting regular vulnerability assessments are just a few examples of essential cybersecurity practices.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Undocumented open-source code is in virtually all software; unique precautions apply in healthcare in order to prevent against the risks of the vulnerabilities potentially contained in open source software (OSS) and third-party code.

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MAY 16, 2024

All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

It is an exciting moment in time within the healthcare sector as we’re witnessing the accelerating pace at which technology is both developed and adopted. For example, caregivers can supplement care delivery with predictive care plans to drive improved outcomes.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Jonathan Burk, Software Engineering Director at Full Spectrum This is a good example of how the concept of diversity of defense can protect organizations from a single security vendor having an outsize impact on operations. Security updates are often urgent, and delayed distribution could leave customers exposed to critical vulnerabilities.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions Health Equity Predictions Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions Telehealth and VR Predictions Value Based Care Predictions And now, check out our community’s Value Based Care predictions.

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MARCH 14, 2023

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.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In March 2023, for example, Cerebral, a telehealth platform that provides online therapy and medication management to millions of users, reported a healthcare data breach that impacted more than 3.1 million individuals that stemmed from its use of tracking pixels.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

It’s amazing how many examples there are in healthcare where we don’t listen to patients. Patients Susannah Fox was really the best start to a conference to remind us of the patient perspective. Not to mention the caregiver perspective which she’s experienced first hand. Be sure to check out her book Rebel Health.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Data also brings in a preventative aspect – take a patient with chronic kidney disease, for example. For example, interactive patient care systems (IPS) utilize video connection, language interpretation, body language, and custom health education capabilities to engage each unique patient in the way that’s most effective.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

One example of leveraging AI as a tool to integrate new information sources could be by integrating natural language processing to both recognize audio, visual, and written communications and provide additional context or patient information from their EHR in real-time.

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