Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

In this video, two cybersecurity experts advise healthcare organizations not to fret over AI and advanced attacks, but to shore up the “basic fundamentals”: training against phishing attacks, practicing responses to attacks, and proven cyber technologies. Figure out who is most likely to be attacked. Some help is coming.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

These include a lack of standard data formats, limited ability to integrate with EHR systems or share with community-based organizations, and insufficient training on how to code social determinants.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2020

The following is a guest article by Dustin Hutchison, President and COO, Pondurance. In the midst of a pandemic in which more than 2 million people have gotten sick worldwide and 130,000 have died, you’d like to think that cybercriminals would recognize the gravity of the situation and agree to a collective humanitarian “cease fire” […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Healthcare is filled with cybersecurity risks. While we’ve dealt with network security risks and software vulnerability risks for a long time, we’re also starting to learn how to protect ourselves against the human risk of our employees falling for a phishing attack.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2024

Colleen Sirhal, Chief Clinical Officer and VP Customer Success at Hyland Healthcare First I want to mention from an AI front, in healthcare we have been using machine learning, we have been using data for years and years and years. Mark Khachaturian, CEO at Wellvii Number 2 is connectivity and IoT.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for these answers. The following is what they had to say on how to stay safe and can be used as a little check list for your healthcare cybersecurity efforts. Hackers are finding holes in the gaps created by fragmented systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Digital transformation in healthcare is an incredible tool that is actively working to make the lives of patients and staff better every day; especially as more organizations begin to embrace it and expand its use throughout their healthcare systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

For example, a report from Sophos found that 66% of healthcare organizations reported ransomware attacks last year, jumping from 34% in 2020. In 2023, health systems must make cybersecurity a top priority, otherwise, they will be putting patient data at risk.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

Often interface with information technology peers, leadership and business relationship managers to understand, design, and improve cybersecurity as it relates to the various organizational lines of business. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with healthcare security.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

In fact, a recent JAMA Health Forum report indicates that from 2016 to 2021, the annual number of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector more than doubled. Broader security training is also necessary, such as how to lock workstations and the importance of protecting both personal and work devices while traveling or in public areas.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2024

To stay safe in 2024, understanding the current state of IoMT security and how to prioritize action is critical. All of these challenges are compounded by the budget and staff constraints facing most HDOs.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2024

SBOMs help document the components in the software applications, legal and/or security compliance issues, exposure to specific vulnerabilities, how current the components are, where risks exist, and how to mitigate them. Today’s medical interventions are leaps and bounds beyond what was imaginable only a few years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Attackers recognize that staying up to date on vendors’ software vulnerabilities means they can enter a healthcare network, then go upstream and steal or ransom the group’s data. And new AI tools make all of these efforts quicker and more effective.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2023

Various studies have found that anywhere between 88% to 95% of data security breaches are caused by human error , another indication that the workforce needs to be educated on how to properly follow protocols that protect sensitive data. Step Three: Educate Yourself and Embrace Next-Gen Technology The U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2024

With pervasive network visibility at the source of packet capture thanks to NDR, healthcare IT teams can use this network context to adequately verify and remove anomalies in network traffic before they become systemic issues.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2024

There is also an opportunity to educate IT, clinical, and operational staff on all types of potential outages — legacy and new — an organization might encounter, how to identify and report them, and business continuity workflows to address each outage type.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2023

Privacy and security start with each user, so it is critical for staff to understand how to identify and avoid privacy or security issues, such as ransomware or phishing attempts.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Sagnik Bhattacharya, CEO at Rhapsody The winners will figure out how to adopt digital health solutions and integrate them into healthcare workflows at a lower cost. Healthcare is undergoing a digital transformation, and innovation is accelerating.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The good news is that at the conference I was starting to hear some really deep and meaningful discussions about how to rethink how a healthcare organization and health IT organizations approach resiliency.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

There are many drivers converging in healthcare that underscore the critical role patient engagement plays in determining providers’ long-term success. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

When organizations acquire technology and are unaware of how to use or properly leverage it, they can end up in large amounts of data and not know how to appropriately apply it to improving solutions. The other realization that many organizations will encounter is that technology and headcount are not always mutually exclusive.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

The coming year will see exploration of how to apply the technology, but we will not yet see a full integration of generative AI within labeling. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Simultaneously, point solutions with compelling use cases will see this as an opportunity to build even more partnerships with healthcare organizations who are looking to differentiate themselves from competitors and drive more compelling results for their health plan clients. Aasim Saeed, Founder and CEO at Amenities Health 1.)

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

As the healthcare industry continues to embrace the transformative power of AI, there will be exciting opportunities and formidable challenges. CIOs and healthcare executives will need to simultaneously understand how to harness the potential of AI while safeguarding against emerging cybersecurity threats.

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