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The Detrimental Impact of Tech Debt in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Industries

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

Technical debt (tech debt), referring to the deferred maintenance and upgrades of a system, is commonly accrued in the healthcare and life sciences industries. Another factor in determining the worth of addressing vulnerabilities is the fact that consumers and patients have little tolerance for cybersecurity lapses.

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Training Your Staff From Becoming a Vulnerability to Your Healthcare Organization

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to ask them – what can be done to train your staff from becoming a vulnerability to your healthcare organization? But with proper and regularly scheduled training, we can minimize these mistakes. But what should that training look like? The following are their answers.

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Key Insights and Perspectives from Day 1 at ViVE 2025

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This week Healthcare IT Today will be attending the ViVE Conference happening in Nashville. For those not familiar with the event, it’s a partnership between HLTH and CHIME that brings together some of the best healthcare CIOs and other healthcare executives at one great event.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

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Rackspace Guides Customers Through Both Optimization and Innovation in the Cloud

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2025

” In this video, PV SubbaRao, Senior Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Rackspace, offers guidance to healthcare firms in adopting or making better use of cloud services. Check out our interview with SubbaRao from Rackspace to learn more. Tell us what you think.

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Considerations and Safeguards Addressing Potential Vulnerabilities in Connected Medical Devices and the Internet of Things (IoT)

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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Why HHS’ Cybersecurity Concept Paper Falls Short for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

It’s new approaches and ideas like these that will build a skilled workforce that is ready to protect the healthcare delivery system from existing and future cybersecurity threats. Here I agree – we can use all the help we can get.

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Navigating Cyber Threats: Cost-Effective Cybersecurity for Healthtech

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 11, 2024

The following is a guest article by Justin Kozak, Life Sciences Specialist at Founder Shield In an era where digital innovation drives healthcare forward, healthtech companies are at the forefront of a double-edged sword.

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The Top Technologies Healthcare Organizations Need to Implement to Improve Their Security Posture

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Now that adopting top technologies is a universally understood truth in the world of healthcare, only one question remains – What are the top technologies that healthcare organizations need to implement to improve their security posture? The following is what they had to share.

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Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Driving Innovation in Healthcare: How an Ecosystem Approach to IoMT has the Potential to Transform Patient Care and Cost Management

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2023

The following is a guest article by Zack Tisch, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Life Sciences at Pivot Point Consulting Medical devices have long existed and added value at points in the healthcare experience.

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

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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The Double-Edged Sword of RPM: Benefits and Security Risks to Consider

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 11, 2024

The following is a guest article by Justin Kozak, Life Sciences Specialist at Founder Shield Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has revolutionized healthcare, offering access to patient data and promising improved outcomes. Albeit exciting, this transformative technology isn’t without its challenges.

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Pharma IT and AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 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. Jane Reed, Director of Life Sciences at Linguamatics, an IQVIA company Pharmaceutical developers have always prioritized drug safety.

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Fortifying Healthcare Against Critical Cybersecurity Threats: A Three-Pronged Approach

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As the industry continues to evolve, these proactive measures not only mitigate risks but also contribute to overall healthcare cyber resilience, ensuring the safety of patient data and the continuity of exceptional care delivery.

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Healthcare: The Path of Least Resistance for Cybercriminals

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Currently, Steve is responsible for the North American Healthcare and Life Sciences Vertical as well as the Central Region for Ping Identity serving as their Vice President.

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Fascinating Healthcare Insights and Perspectives from Oracle’s CloudWorld

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

More on why that event is going to be big later and why I’m sad Colin will be there covering it for Healthcare IT Today instead of me. Verma also highlighted to me how Oracle’s life sciences relationships can be leveraged as well. Especially since it was a short 20 min drive to the event for me.

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Avoiding The Long Tail of a Cyberattack

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2025

The following is a guest article by Mike Hamilton, CISO at Lumifi Cyber Cybercrime was reported to cause $8T in global losses in 2022, and that is expected to rise to $12T by 2027. That is an astonishing amount of money, on par with the GDP of many developed nations.

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Healthcare’s Security Paradox: Most Targeted, Least Prepared

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2025

The following is a guest article by Mike Hale, Principal Solutions Engineer at EchoStor The healthcare industry finds itself in an increasingly precarious position. While it remains one of the most attractive targets for cybercriminals, it continues to trail behind other sectors in implementing robust cybersecurity measures.

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Healthcare AI Regulations and Ethics – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 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. Though it may be too early to expect any form of regulation this year regarding AI from governing bodies in life sciences, we all know it is coming.

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Cautionary Views of Healthcare AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 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. Especially in the healthcare and life sciences industry, organizations are realizing that technology is not the answer to every problem.

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Uses of AI in Healthcare – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 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. But what most healthcare professionals don’t realize is that AI can do so much more than respond to patient messages.

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The Detrimental Impact of Tech Debt in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Industries

Training Your Staff From Becoming a Vulnerability to Your Healthcare Organization

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Key Insights and Perspectives from Day 1 at ViVE 2025

Webinars

Rackspace Guides Customers Through Both Optimization and Innovation in the Cloud

Considerations and Safeguards Addressing Potential Vulnerabilities in Connected Medical Devices and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Why HHS’ Cybersecurity Concept Paper Falls Short for Healthcare

Navigating Cyber Threats: Cost-Effective Cybersecurity for Healthtech

The Top Technologies Healthcare Organizations Need to Implement to Improve Their Security Posture

Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more

Driving Innovation in Healthcare: How an Ecosystem Approach to IoMT has the Potential to Transform Patient Care and Cost Management

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

The Double-Edged Sword of RPM: Benefits and Security Risks to Consider

Pharma IT and AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Fortifying Healthcare Against Critical Cybersecurity Threats: A Three-Pronged Approach

Healthcare: The Path of Least Resistance for Cybercriminals

Fascinating Healthcare Insights and Perspectives from Oracle’s CloudWorld

Avoiding The Long Tail of a Cyberattack

Healthcare’s Security Paradox: Most Targeted, Least Prepared

Healthcare AI Regulations and Ethics – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Cautionary Views of Healthcare AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Uses of AI in Healthcare – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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