Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A breach can be incredibly costly—according to the IBM/Ponemon Institute’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Study , the average cost of a healthcare data breach reached $10.93 This highlights the urgent need to protect patient information by implementing robust cybersecurity measures. million, almost double the average across other sectors.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2024

As the healthcare industry continues to embrace technological advancements, these organizations must strike a delicate balance between innovation and security to navigate the evolving landscape of healthcare cybersecurity and defend against threat actors.

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JULY 8, 2024

Exec Summary: Healthcare cybersecurity is a vital field safeguarding electronic patient information, medical devices, and healthcare systems from cyberattacks. Availability: Guarantees that authorised personnel can access critical healthcare systems and patient data whenever needed, preventing disruptions due to cyberattacks.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. New HIPAA Security Rule – and Enforcement – Is Coming in 2024. Read more… The Advantages of Human Scribes for Clinical Notes.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The following is a guest article by Andy Nieto, Global Healthcare Solutions Manager for Lenovo Health. As healthcare continues its digital transformation journey, providing care is becoming easier and more efficient for providers. Technologies like cloud computing and IoT devices carry inherent risks associated with cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Sensato Cybersecurity suite is a natural fit with CloudWave’s OpSus Cloud Services. It will enable hospitals to implement a fully managed cybersecurity program, resulting in full HIPAA and NIST compliance, with end-to-end service and support from a single provider.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2021

The past year has brought some sobering statistics to light regarding healthcare cybersecurity. Despite HIPAA and its strict regulations, reports show a staggering 25% increase in data breaches throughout the industry in the past year. The following is a guest article by Rom Hendler, CEO and Co-Founder at Trustifi.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2024

Constitution as one of the original agencies," she told top healthcare cybersecurity leaders there to discuss the best cybersecurity practices and strategies to secure data and ultimately protect healthcare delivery. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. system of weights and measures.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In the case of healthcare, one of the lines of thought has been as to whether or not team members not directly involved in patient care or support need to be located at facilities where it takes place. COVID-19 has caused a rethinking in how companies view office space and corporate real estate. Another thought […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Intersection of HIPPA and AI Solutions When it comes to healthcare, specifically the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, we need to consider two critical concepts before we look at AI solutions developed by a vendor in the HIPAA realm. So, HIPAA may not apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. According to an investigation by ProPublica and German radio and TV network Bayerischer Rundfunk, medical data of more than 5MM U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Importance of Cybersecurity in Healthcare The healthcare sector is uniquely vulnerable to cybersecurity breaches. 2023 was a record year, with 114 data breaches of 100,000 or more records reported to The HIPAA Journal. Cybercriminals are drawn to healthcare data as bees are to honey.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2020

Further reinforcing the original intent of HIPAA, this empowers patients to download their data and use […]. The reason being is because patients are now entitled to use Application Programming Interfaces to download their health data into their application of choice.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In the search for some of these answers to help ease your burden, we have reached out to our incredibly brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights on communication platforms. Once you understand this, you can focus on which regulations have to be considered, such as HIPAA and GDPR.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 3, 2023

Before his role at Clearwater, Dave served as the Director of Technology and Security at Mary Washington Healthcare, where he was responsible for technology leadership and served as the HIPAA Security Officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Today, advanced security measures like encryption and access controls help to protect data from unauthorized access, which is important for patient privacy and allows institutions to comply with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The challenges can be particularly daunting for small offices with limited resources, where one person might juggle HIPAA compliance, security, and HR responsibilities. The situation is further complicated because HR departments within these SMBs handle a significant amount of sensitive employee information.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights into this matter. We asked them – with this ongoing era of increasing cyber threats, what measures are organizations implementing or should be implementing to strengthen the cybersecurity of healthcare systems and protect patient data ?

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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

JULY 6, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Cyber Security Architect position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Demonstrated knowledge of HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR and SOC. Experience with the Cyber Kill Chain and enterprise solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Undocumented open-source code is in virtually all software; unique precautions apply in healthcare in order to prevent against the risks of the vulnerabilities potentially contained in open source software (OSS) and third-party code.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. 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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Whether you need HIPAA, OSHA, SOC 2, or all three, your compliance program is fully customizable. Remove the complexities and stress of compliance, increase patient loyalty and the profitability of your business, and reduce risk.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the event cyber protections fail, patient data can be exposed — violating compliance laws including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which carries sizable fines — and brings significant operational consequences. The stakes are high to succeed.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

So, as healthcare embraces digital transformation, what considerations and safeguards are in place to address potential vulnerabilities in connected medical devices and IoT within the healthcare ecosystem? We reached out to our insightful Healthcare IT Today Community with this question and the following is what they had to share.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 29, 2024

This approach not only enhances the overall security measures of healthcare systems but also helps in compliance with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, safeguarding patient privacy and confidentiality. Healthcare organizations must prioritize cybersecurity in their strategic planning and resource allocation.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

That may sound obvious, but it’s easy for healthcare organizations to overcorrect in other areas like compliance. For example, in their attempts to delineate and identify data they consider the most sensitive, they may zero in on HIPAA records to satisfy government regulations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

The US Senate heard the weak excuses of the United Healthcare CEO who admitted Change Healthcare had not secured its Citrix systems with multifactor authentication (MFA) even though they had a written policy to do so, and that they failed to notify data breach victims by the HIPAA and state data breach law deadlines.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In the context of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other growing, changing regulations, IAM practices are necessary to fortify defenses while also meeting regulatory requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Censinet’s unique risk exchange enables providers, payers, and vendors to collaboratively manage third party and enterprise risk, continuously improving risk posture in real-time and strengthening cybersecurity across all healthcare organizations.” .

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yet the healthcare industry still demonstrates a certain level of distrust in cloud security and stores the least amount of sensitive data, particularly personal information like healthcare records or payment card details, in the cloud versus its peers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2023

In addition, major healthcare organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have started using Confidential Computing-powered technologies to protect data at the highest level.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

He is responsible for security program strategy, cybersecurity operations, security assessment and audit, and regulatory compliance. He has his Masters in Information Security and holds CCISSP, CISA, CHC, CRISC, and ITIL-F certifications.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 2, 2020

By Navin Balakrishnaraja, practice director for healthcare IT Services, All Covered (IT services division of Konica Minolta). Technology continues to advance the healthcare industry, providing more precision and improved delivery of care. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The following is a guest article by Anthony Murray, Chief Interoperability Officer at MRO In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. Here we explore the three main interoperability challenges that continue to shape the narrative in healthcare.

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