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

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The prevalent use of outdated legacy systems by healthcare organizations and their vendors creates gaps in their security posture through unpatched vulnerabilities, weak access control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

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 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

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

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 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

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. The second on the positive side is going to be value based care.

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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

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

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 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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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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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

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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Risks Healthcare Organizations Face in this New Mobile-First Environment The healthcare sector has always been a prime target for cybercriminals. The stolen data is often used to commit fraud, identity and intellectual theft, espionage, blackmail, extortion, etc., and sadly, often cannot be replaced.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

Both HIPAA and related state laws create strict guidelines and restrictions on collecting, using, and maintaining patient-protected health information. Healthcare providers should be mindful of how an AI product addresses data privacy and security, particularly when integrating AI into the architecture of existing information systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

This progress will be enhanced by more robust and accurate data collection tools in real-time rather than relying on the memories of overworked healthcare teams. Generative AI will streamline workflows, enabling healthcare teams to manage complex tasks, reduce administrative tasks, and improve patient communication.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2024

Healthcare institutions work with a treasure trove of data, harnessing all four data types—Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Payment Card Industry (PCI) data, Protected Health Information (PHI), and Intellectual Property (IP)—making these organizations prime targets for cybercriminals.

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