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Training Your Staff From Becoming a Vulnerability to Your Healthcare Organization

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But with proper and regularly scheduled training, we can minimize these mistakes. But what should that training look like? 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?

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Cybersecurity Investment in Fundamental Tools and Training Is Key to Securing Your Healthcare Organization

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In this video, Witt and Joshua Roth, Chief Information Security Officer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) , discuss how they protect against breaches through fundamental investments in tools and training. Witt says that training, processes, and technology can all play a role.

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Mitigating Cyberattacks can be a Life-or-Death Situation

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In simplest terms, the legislation proposed advanced and accelerated payments to healthcare providers in the event of a cyber incident, if they meet minimum cybersecurity standards determined by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The health of patients depends on it.

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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., These incidents highlight the critical vulnerabilities in healthcare cybersecurity.

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It is Time for the Healthcare Industry to Reexamine Cybersecurity Preparedness in the Face of Unprecedented Risk

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For healthcare providers, a ransomware attack often leads the organization to disconnect from vendor systems – or vice versa – resulting in an inability to access electronic health records systems and other critical systems, forcing hospitals into downtime procedures.

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Best Cybersecurity Practices for Patient Data Sharing in Healthcare

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It’s up to healthcare organizations to implement robust cybersecurity protocols to offset the worst-case scenario (seismic data breaches) and maximize the best-case scenario ( mass systemic improvements ). As a Senior Director, Alexander has extensive experience in leadership roles for GRC security specialists.

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NIST 2.0: Changes that Impact Cyber Programs and How Health Systems Can Adapt to the New ‘Govern’ Function

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It highlights the fact that organizations shouldn’t view these functions individually, but rather as pieces of a unified, comprehensive cybersecurity strategy. These metrics should be reported to senior leadership on a regular basis. A key component of a successful cybersecurity program is scalability.