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Healthcare Cybersecurity – 2025 Health IT Predictions

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Check out the community’s predictions down below and be sure to follow along as we share more 2025 Health IT Predictions ! Check out our community’s Healthcare Cybersecurity predictions: Bill Murphy, Director of Security and Compliance at LeanTaaS As we enter 2025, AI is revolutionizing cyber threats in concerning ways.

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Ransomware, Cloud, and Phishing: Decoding this Year’s Cybersecurity Landscape

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In the first half of the year alone, we saw major incidents like the Change Healthcare breach , which affected up to one-third of Americans , and the Ascension ransomware attack , which disrupted hospital operations across the U.S., impacting electronic health records and patient portals.

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Ensuring the Security and Privacy of Patient Data while Managing Large Volumes of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

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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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Secure Your Healthcare Organization with Better Cyber Resilience

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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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How Healthcare Organizations can Minimize the Impact of Ransomware in the Cloud

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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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A Fresh Approach to Safeguarding Healthcare Data

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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. Training Help staff learn by doing.

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Ransomware Preparedness in Healthcare – Are you Doing the Basics?

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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.