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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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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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

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. Over his career.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Healthcare organizations must find a way to develop more proactivity in their cybersecurity approach. One effective strategy is to incorporate ethical hacking into their security measures. This underutilized approach in the healthcare sector can provide significant protection against cyber threats.

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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 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

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The following is a guest article by David Sampson, VP of Cyber Risk and Strategy at Thrive It’s time for healthcare organizations to reevaluate their cybersecurity posture and cyber resilience. For healthcare organizations, this is critical to prevent interruptions to patient care or breaches of sensitive health information.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Risks Healthcare Organizations Face in this New Mobile-First Environment The healthcare sector has always been a prime target for cybercriminals. Organizations should employ mobile-first strategies that can adapt to these new challenges. and sadly, often cannot be replaced.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Another essential step is implementing a comprehensive and quick data identification and classification system that analyzes structured and unstructured data to identify and appropriately protect diverse types of information. Following the IPO, Bruno served as Chief Strategy Officer, continuing to guide the company’s strategic direction.

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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

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

JUNE 11, 2024

This post acknowledges the positive impact of RPM, while also exploring the potential pitfalls and mitigation strategies healthcare companies must consider to ensure this technology remains a force for good. RPM systems introduce new vulnerabilities, as sensitive health information is transmitted wirelessly from patients’ homes.

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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 8, 2024

Health Economics Outcomes Research (HEOR) will become more common in decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). This year we saw the maturation of Claims and Health Information Exchanges, which enable a cost-effective and straightforward process for researchers to gain access to identified patients’ data.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In the Change Healthcare attack, outdated systems were exploited and contributed to the shutdown of systems. A network segmentation strategy should also be in place as it limits the spread of attacks by separating critical medical devices and their connected networks from other networked systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

This strategy has helped our company foster trust between clinician users and our AI-driven platform and holds the potential to transform clinical outcomes, patient experiences, and reduce healthcare costs. The ability of AI to quickly parse stolen data and launch targeted attacks poses a significant challenge to cybersecurity efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Earlier this year, Tausight launched its expanded AI-powered PHI Security Intelligence platform , which automates the identification and classification of electronically protected health information (PHI) to enhance the protection of healthcare patients’ most valuable confidential information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

Scott Hondros, MHA, SCPM, Vice President of Services Commercialization & Strategy at CenTrak AI is poised to significantly enhance healthcare industry processes and facilities. Generative AI will streamline workflows, enabling healthcare teams to manage complex tasks, reduce administrative tasks, and improve patient communication.

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