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Secure Your Healthcare Organization with Better Cyber Resilience

Healthcare IT Today

Each connected device—from medical IoT (Internet of Things) equipment to the smartphones doctors and nurses use—can serve as a weak spot for cyber criminals to breach organizations’ servers. Endpoint protection is essential for securing the array of devices that healthcare professionals rely on daily.

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Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services

Healthcare IT Today

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

Healthcare IT Today

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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The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

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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9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

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

Healthcare IT Today

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

Healthcare IT Today

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. Moreover, the emphasis in hiring is placed on doctors, nurses, and researchers, not on cybersecurity experts.