Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 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 And now, check out our community’s Healthcare Cybersecurity predictions.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2024

James Rice, Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Protegrity Healthcare organizations can ensure secure patient data by enabling advanced data-centric security, including tokenization, masking, and anonymization, to ensure sensitive information remains protected and obfuscated while at rest, in transit, or in use.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information. We can’t serve our patients if we don’t ensure that protected health information (PHI) is kept private.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2025

Quick Security Fixes Hospitals can immediately enhance their cybersecurity posture by implementing some straightforward yet powerful technical fixes. First, ensure that all protected health information (PHI) is encrypted both at rest and in transit.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 29, 2023

Remote patient monitoring systems collect and transmit sensitive patient information, making them a prime target for cyberattacks. Thus, compliance with healthcare cybersecurity regulations is essential for healthcare organizations to protect patient data and maintain trust. million per year for repeat violations.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2025

Here are some of the key cybersecurity challenges that come with telemedicine: Data Breaches The most significant cybersecurity risk in telemedicine is the potential for data breaches. Whether its a video consultation or a chat, encryption is a crucial safeguard for securing sensitive health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Risks Unique to the Healthcare Industry The healthcare sector is especially vulnerable to attacks because of its reliance on electronically stored protected health information (PHI), including records, scans, and bills.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 19, 2023

When it comes to cybersecurity, it is important for organizations to take a proactive approach and implement strong safeguards to protect against potential threats. Healthcare cybersecurity refers to the measures and practices put in place to protect sensitive data and systems within the healthcare industry.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2024

The prevalent use of outdated legacy systems by healthcare organizations and their vendors creates gaps in their security posture through unpatched vulnerabilities, weak access control mechanisms, and unsophisticated authentication requirements.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 10, 2022

This allegedly allowed Facebook to receive Protected Health Information (PHI) of patients, including doctors’ names and medical conditions. All of this information could be linked to the user’s unique IP address. Facebook’s use of Meta Pixel amid ever-increasing healthcare cybersecurity concerns raises many questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

The mission of a SOC is to protect valuable customer/client data, protected health information, and intellectual property, achieved primarily through the prioritization, collection, and processing of security logs. What Should Be Included in a SOC?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Although the healthcare industry has been slower to move to the cloud due to the sensitive nature of its data, adoption has been on the rise in recent years (in part spurred by the pandemic), and today 47 percent of health organizations store protected health information (PHI) in the cloud , which increases their level of risk.

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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). Patient health information remains highly valuable on the black market.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jatin (JT) Thakkar, General Manager for Global Services and Solutions at Carestream Every day patients trust their health to the care of medical providers. They also place their personal health information (PHI) in their care.

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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? So, I recommend the steps below, urging all patients to practice extreme care.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Sensato, a managed cybersecurity services company focused on protecting healthcare providers from ransomware events and other cybersecurity threats, was founded by long-time health information technology visionary John Gomez, who will join CloudWave as chief security and engineering officer.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When considering healthcare cybersecurity best practices, HIPAA security risk assessments and HIPAA remediation plans are essential. With October being “Cybersecurity Awareness Month,” security education and planning should be at the top of the list for many healthcare businesses. .

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

An incident response plan is essential to provide impacted parties with a clear understanding of the protected health information (PHI) and/or electronically protected health information (ePHI) that was compromised, when the incident occurred, and what action is being taken by the organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

The following is a guest article by Andrea Hopkins , Chief Information Security Officer at Juno Health Think about whats in your own health records for a moment: your name, address, Social Security number, insurance informationnot to mention diagnoses.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In a press release issued at the time of the settlement, then OCR Director, Roger Severino stated, “People need to trust that their private health information will remain exactly that; private. In another settlement announced in 2017, 21st Century Oncology, Inc. 21CO) faced a $2.3

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The following is a guest article by Oren Koren, Co-Founder and CPO at Veriti In 2024, the healthcare sector emerged as a prime target for cybercriminals, with the medical and personal data of over 170 million U.S. citizens compromised in a wave of unprecedented breaches.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Charles Cinert, Chief Services Officer & General Manager at ClearDATA Wearables and IoT devices are undeniably a marvel of modern healthcare technology, continually evolving and offering unprecedented convenience and health monitoring capabilities that can improve patient health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

The following is a guest article by Sharat Potharaju, Co-Founder and CEO at Uniqode Healthcare organizations face two pressing challenges. The first is security: Ransomware attacks hit 67% of healthcare organizations in 2023, with the average payment reaching $4.4 The second is efficiency: physicians spend 4.5

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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 15, 2024

Healthcare organizations are particularly alluring targets for hackers because the industry holds so much information that is of high monetary and intelligence value to cyber thieves and malicious actors, according to the American Hospital Association.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2024

Federal guidelines like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) outline the responsibility of healthcare providers when it comes to creating, analyzing, and distributing Protected Health Information (PHI).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

You can also visit our HIMSS23 page to see all our coverage of health IT’s biggest event. Announcements from HIMSS Lack of staff is the top barrier to robust cybersecurity for 61% of healthcare organizations, according to the HIMSS 2022 Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey Report.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Building Trust in the Cloud One of the main, and most obvious, reasons is the highly sensitive nature of data at play in healthcare facilities: protected health information (PHI), insurance claims, pharmaceutical intellectual property, and more. So what’s causing this hesitancy?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Internal actors are the second-leading cause of breaches in healthcare. This is mainly due to misuse, such as unintentionally compromising consumer credentials, Personal Identifiable Information (PII), and Personal Health Information (PHI).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Navigating HIPAA Compliance: A Foundation for Protecting Patient Data For healthcare organizations, staying compliant with HIPAA is essential to safeguard patient data. To stay on track, organizations should regularly assess risks, put safeguards in place, train their staff, and keep strong policies up-to-date.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It is critical to understand the threats to the organization, the business functions, and the information systems that store, process, and transmit protected health information. A significant shift is necessary to combat increasingly sophisticated attacks.

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Xealth

JULY 16, 2024

Streamlined Compliance : Regulatory compliance is a significant concern in healthcare cybersecurity. Xealth’s platform helps ensure that all digital health integrations comply with relevant regulations, such as HIPAA, by providing standardized and secure connections.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge. Within healthcare, the technology and expertise exist to help providers, payers, public health, health information exchanges, and healthcare IT companies exchange data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Healthcare firms have long been targets for cyber criminals. They handle data like protected health information (PHI), intellectual property (IP), clinical trial data and payment card data, giving attackers many options to cash in, and healthcare is a critical infrastructure industry that can be hardest hit by ransomware attacks.

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