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Healthcare Cybersecurity Gaps Remain Despite Massive Spending Increases

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2025

The following is a guest article by Rob Shavell, CEO at DeleteMe Healthcare cybersecurity 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.

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Why HHS’ Cybersecurity Concept Paper Falls Short for Healthcare

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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Cybersecurity Challenges in Telemedicine and How to Keep Virtual Appointments Secure

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2025

Whether through video calls, chat platforms, or remote monitoring devices, telemedicine has made healthcare more efficient and flexible, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. As virtual healthcare becomes more popular, the risks of cybersecurity threats are growing right alongside it.

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Bonus Features – February 19, 2023 – 80% of orgs collect SDOH data but struggle to make use of it, 2 in 3 cybersecurity pros say their orgs underestimate threats, and more

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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The Difference Between HL7 and APIs: What CIOs Need to Know to Succeed with the 21st Century CURES Act Final Rule

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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ViVE 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

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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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Cybersecurity: Hoping for the Best, but Preparing for the Worst

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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HIMSS 2024 – AI is Going To Be the #1 Talked About Topic Over the Next 12 Months, What is #2?

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 Security and Risk – 2023 Health IT Predictions

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. 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.

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Measures You Should be Implementing in Your Organization to Strengthen Your Cybersecurity and Protect Your Patient Data

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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Navigating Cyber Threats: Cost-Effective Cybersecurity for Healthtech

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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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

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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Vendor Management and Data Security: Strengthening Your Weakest Link

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 CIOs Speeding Up Social Determinants Of Health Efforts

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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Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services

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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Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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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Navigating the Interoperability Maze: 3 Key Challenges for Healthcare Providers and Payers

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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Why Secure Data Archiving is Critical to Fortifying Your Healthcare Organization’s Technology Stack

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 AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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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Ransomware Preparedness in Healthcare – Are you Doing the Basics?

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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Patients – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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 Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 1: Origin Stories, the Security Ecosystem, and the Start Line

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. When I coach other CISOs, that’s one of the cornerstones of how I approach leadership.

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Healthcare Generative AI and Data – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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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ViVE 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

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HIMSS 2024 – AI is Going To Be the #1 Talked About Topic Over the Next 12 Months, What is #2?

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