Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2020

The 21st Century CURES Act Final Rule is a major change for healthcare data interchange. The reason being is because patients are now entitled to use Application Programming Interfaces to download their health data into their application of choice.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2024

For example, a recent survey of 1,200 consumers revealed that 95% of patients expressed concern about the possibility of data breaches affecting their medical information, according to Health Gorilla. A Growing Concern for Providers For healthcare providers, data breaches are also a major potential dilemma.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2025

In 2024 according to the Identity Theft Resource Centers 2024 Data Breach Report a whopping 237 million victim notices were sent out to Americans notifying them that had their health data exposed in a breach (190 million in the Change Healthcare Breach alone).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

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. The bad news: Organizations face multiple challenges in collecting, coding, and using SDOH data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2024

News CHIME provided some clarity on the Smart Hospital Maturity Model initiative , noting it’s meant to “complement and enhance” the existing Digital Health Most Wired Program. The organization also announced CHIME is joining the Federation for Informatics Professionals in Health and Care in the United Kingdom.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

ZeOmega integrated its Jiva SDOH Social Care solution with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. AVIA added RUSH, MUSC Health, and United Regional Health Care System to its network. Health Plan Alliance selected 1upHealth as its preferred health data interoperability vendor.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 23, 2022

However, there are five best practices that HCPs should follow when working with these companies to ensure their healthcare data is secure. When performing due diligence on a healthcare cybersecurity provider, HCPs or other medical institutions should thoroughly research the company’s background and experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Colin Hung spoke to Marcus Perez at Altera Digital Health about helping providers solve cash flow and throughput challenges today while planning for care-at-home and other initiatives to support future business growth. Read more… Working Together for Stronger Healthcare Cybersecurity.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Everyone in the industry has a shared responsibility to maintain security standards, keep health data safe, and keep it moving. Moreover, employee training on cybersecurity best practices, including the use of strong passwords and recognizing phishing attempts, is vital to safeguard against cyber threats.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is because health data continues to move away from the barriers of manual approach and towards online platforms. Brian Selfridge, Healthcare Cybersecurity & Risk Leader at CORL Technologies. Given the growing risk burden on healthcare, I offer ten predictions for the top vendor risk exposure trends for 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

New research has concluded that healthcare CIOs see analyzing social determinants of health data as a top priority going forward, along with tackling data interoperability and cybersecurity. Focus group leads asked the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 11, 2024

Understanding the Cyber Threat Landscape in Healthtech Healthtech companies face an array of cyber threats, with data breaches and ransomware attacks being particularly prevalent. The sector’s unique vulnerabilities stem from the highly sensitive nature of health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

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.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

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. Health data should be protected by a similar assessment requirement for health plans and providers to receive federal funds.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

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 health data directly to a clinic, but also less flashy examples—outsourced printer management, for example.)

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. What do I mean?

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Interoperability and health data exchange: Ensuring seamless data flow between different systems and platforms. Equity and access to digital health: Addressing disparities in access to technology and ensuring inclusive healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

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). Given the health tech market’s rapid growth, there is certainly more to come.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The following is a guest article by Anthony Murray, Chief Interoperability Officer at MRO In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The following is a guest article by Shawn Fergason, Senior Vice President of Information Technology and Technology Services at MediQuant Securing healthcare data archiving is not just good practice – it’s essential for safeguarding confidential patient information and should be a cornerstone of a healthcare organization’s cybersecurity program.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2021

In many areas of health IT, experimentation is good and may ultimately be to the benefit of users. On the other hand, when it comes to telehealth security, it’s looking more and more as though establishing routine practices and following security best practices is a good idea. At present, there’s still a lot of ways […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

A KLAS executive survey reports that the number of healthcare organizations deploying generative AI will at least double in the next year. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chad Peterson, Managing Director at NetSPI As ransomware attacks become more sophisticated, healthcare organizations have become desirable targets due to the valuable data shared across medical records and the constant need for service availability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

Christian Hardahl, Global Health Care Solutions Manager at SAS Patients push to own their health data. Patients will increasingly demand to own their health and social data and only make it available to the resources they choose.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

looking back and looking forward to the future of cybersecurity in health care and some wisdom to help us manage that future world of risks. One of the biggest byproducts of this change is that organizational data has become ambient. Finally, we’ll post the last third of our conversation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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 Healthcare cybersecurity frameworks across APAC nations, the report noted, are "not fully adapted" to remote care solutions nor are these harmonised across jurisdictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

"Mass adoption of this technology will lead to new cybercrime focus, with an emphasis on stealing patient data to enable fraud, target health data in ransomware attacks, trick patients in social engineering schemes, and target remote patient monitoring devices," wrote the report authors.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 7, 2024

But managing chronic conditions requires more than just routine check-ups—it demands continuous monitoring, timely interventions, and effective communication among the healthcare team. That’s where Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Real-Time Health Data Streaming come in.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

Brian Laberge, Solutions Engineer, Health Language at Wolters Kluwer Health Readying health data for AI prime time. Health organizations are making it a strategic priority to extract more value from the volumes of data they’re moving to the cloud. One big health data target in 2024?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2024

DNA data also has serious potential for misuse; much like any health data, genetic information may enable discrimination in terms of getting health insurance or setting premiums, finding or retaining employment, denying loans or charging higher interest rates for financial services, or in a variety of other ways.

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