Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

The changes are far overdue as the last revision to the original 2005 HIPAA Security Rule was made in 2013, before the healthcare industry moved to widespread reliance on technology and before many of todays cyber threats were introduced.

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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 12, 2024

First and foremost, if you’re treating patients, there should be a clear mandate for certain minimum cybersecurity standards. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Last month was Cybersecurity Awareness month which brings a timely reminder for healthcare organizations to prioritize their digital defenses—not just for their own benefit, but for the benefit of the world around them. million—highlighting the importance of cyber resilience in healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Identifying and bouncing back from ransomware attacks is a well-documented challenge across industries: One report found that 87 percent of organizations experience difficulties related to ransomware and malware protection with their current IT infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The following is a guest article by Peter Newton, Senior Director of Products and Solutions at Fortinet Personal medical and financial data is incredibly valuable, which is why healthcare organizations are high-value targets for cybercriminals. Zero-trust security strategies have emerged as a strong way to reduce the risk of a data breach.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2024

The following is a guest article by Trevor Dearing, Director of Critical Infrastructure Solutions at Illumio We’re not even halfway through 2024, and the healthcare industry has already suffered over 250 breaches that exposed the sensitive health information of over 32 million individuals.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Marlena Herrera, Director of Customer Success at Protegrity In the Healthcare industry sensitive data is commonly thought of as Personally Identifiable Information [PII]. That said, wearables contain and transmit significant amounts of protected valuable health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2024

The constant movement and sharing of cloud-based healthcare data puts pressure on IT and security teams to understand where all of their sensitive patient data lives, who has access to it – whether there are excessive permissions – and how it’s being protected.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 29, 2023

The healthcare industry is increasingly turning to remote patient monitoring as a way to improve patient care and reduce costs. However, as healthcare organizations expand their use of technology, it is crucial that they also take measures to ensure that patient data is kept secure and private.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 19, 2023

With the increasing reliance on technology in the healthcare industry, the risk of cyberattacks on healthcare organizations is a growing concern. According to a report from the Ponemon Institute/IBM Security, healthcare data breaches are rising, with the average data breach cost now totaling $6.45

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2024

Data breaches in healthcare are, on average, more costly than any other industry. In 2023, the average cost of a healthcare data breach rose to $10.9 million, a 53% increase over the past three years, according to IBM. The most common causes of data breaches were phishing attacks and compromised credentials.

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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. IT professionals in the healthcare industry must play their part. What do I mean?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Since remote and hybrid employees need to be able to collaborate anytime, anywhere, and from multiple devices, many healthcare organizations are adopting cloud infrastructure and rethinking their overall approach to data security. Top Challenges to Expect Many of the top challenges the healthcare sector faces are shared by other industries.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

Today, that figure is nearly 79%, which means that bad actors are specifically targeting the healthcare industry. Understaffing and lack of technical know-how also stymie healthcare’s efforts to maintain an adequate security posture. Healthcare is competing with every other industry for personnel.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

In an industry facing a projected shortage of 86,000 physicians by 2036 , any technology that reduces administrative burden becomes strategic. Healthcare systems implementing secure, user-friendly solutions report improvements in staff satisfaction, patient experience, and operational efficiency. The benefits extend beyond security.

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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. But you can change this and see your organization through to a safer future!

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc. Healthcare firms have long been targets for cyber criminals. The healthcare industry is more vulnerable because of the high-value nature of its data compared to data from other industries (PHI is thought to be worth 50x a credit card).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

However, I’d encourage healthcare organizations to consider the downside they’re already facing as the frequency of breaches continues to mount in this industry. Healthcare organizations must find a way to develop more proactivity in their cybersecurity approach.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Zeev Neuwirth, author of Beyond the Walls: MegaTrends, Movements and Market Disruptors Transforming American Healthcare and Reframing Healthcare , kicked off the 2023 American Health Information Management Association annual conference (AHIMA23) with a heartfelt keynote.

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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

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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2024

Not only do organizations have a moral obligation to protect the privacy of their patients, but they’re also expected to adhere to strict industry regulations. However, as more organizations commit to digital transformation, it can become harder to protect PHI from sophisticated cyber attacks.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

The following is a guest article by Steve Gwizdala , VP of Healthcare at Ping Identity The healthcare security landscape has become an increasingly critical concern. According to the 2023 ForgeRock Breach Report , healthcare has consistently ranked as the most targeted industry by cybercriminals for the past five years.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The following is a guest article by Pukar Hamal, Founder and CEO at SecurityPal While Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have made managing data easier, they’ve also become a prime target for cybercriminals. million, almost double the average across other sectors.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

While competition for the best possible solution remains fierce, cross-industry cooperation can spur new partnerships and breakthroughs that will benefit clinicians and patients. Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The following is a guest article by Kern Smith, Mobile Security Expert at Zimperium The healthcare industry has been transforming radically over the past decade with the common goal of improving the way healthcare is delivered to patients. and sadly, often cannot be replaced.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2024

The excitement around new tools took hold of all industries in 2023, and the potential is expansive. The unification of technology, services and pharmacovigilance expertise in the coming year will further enunciate the industry’s focus on patient safety. Dave Latshaw, CEO at BioPhy 1.

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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. You’re hearing the buzz even here about generative AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 11, 2024

Healthcare providers and insurers can build trust together and ensure RPM technology reaches its full potential for improving patient care — that’s the goal. Securing RPM Implementation Against Cyberthreats The healthcare industry has become a prime target for cyberattacks, with patient data fetching high prices on the dark web.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 31, 2022

Politico’s recent investigation revealed a record number of cyber security breaches in healthcare, exposing the protected health information of an estimated 50 million people. Healthcare data is highly sought after. Security breaches in healthcare are increasing, and so are the costs.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In the last 20 years, telemedicine has radically cut healthcare costs and brought life-saving care into rural and underserved areas ; during the same period, cybercrime has boomed, with attackers repeatedly targeting healthcare organizations’ rich stores of valuable data. Healthcare’s Insecurity Complex.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force. The expansion of the Tausight platform will cover more sensitive healthcare data categories allowing the company to solve critical customer use cases and serve new healthcare market segments.

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