Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

looking back and looking forward to the future of cybersecurity in health care and some wisdom to help us manage that future world of risks. For highly regulated industries like healthcare, cybersecurity and data protection go hand in hand. Finally, we’ll post the last third of our conversation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2025

In addition to making devices more resilient against attack, proactive security solutions also make it easier to meet FDA guidance and make patching more efficient. Whats Next?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2024

"This significant improvement in efficiency freed up significant resources, allowing healthcare providers to reallocate their time and efforts to more client-focused activities and other administrative areas," she noted. The HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum is scheduled to take place October 31-November 1 in Washington, D.C.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2025

While HIPAA itself lacks a dedicated certification program, healthcare organizations can pursue HITRUST CSF certification, which includes an independent third-party review. This certification is tailored specifically for healthcare and helps validate that IT systems meet stringent compliance and data security standards.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

To help safeguard AI deployment and build trust in AI technologies, healthcare IT leaders must ensure that new investments won’t compromise security and will be used safely and ethically across the organization. Meeting compliance and regulatory requirements, such as HIPAA or GDPR, is critical for healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2025

Looking back at his notes, Colin discovered key thoughts such as understanding the time and effort providers need to put into AI as well as meeting providers’ data integrity standards. Read more… Why Healthcare Cybersecurity Gaps Remain Despite Spending Increases.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Next, we take a look at the skills gap in cybersecurity to talk about how CIOs and CISOs should be working to address their security needs should they go in-house or will they have to go third-party? Next, we debate whether AI will enable cyber initiatives or if it will widen the disparity for rural healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

Federal Register include strict cybersecurity requirements that leave little wiggle room for healthcare providers, health plans, and their business associates to avoid implementing strong cybersecurity practices, including validation that their business partners also meet their HIPAA requirements.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 29, 2023

Thus, compliance with healthcare cybersecurity regulations is essential for healthcare organizations to protect patient data and maintain trust. We will provide 5 tips to help healthcare organizations keep their cybersecurity regulations in check when implementing remote patient monitoring.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 19, 2023

When it comes to cybersecurity, it is important for organizations to take a proactive approach and implement strong safeguards to protect against potential threats. Healthcare cybersecurity refers to the measures and practices put in place to protect sensitive data and systems within the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We recommend using “treating the inside like the outside” or “continuous verification.” Get Ahead of Transition Hurdles Adoption of any new technology generally meets resistance. Although security professionals understand what it means, others can be confused or take offense at the suggestion that they are not trustworthy.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ryan Witt, Healthcare Cybersecurity Leader at Proofpoint The Internet of Medical Things, or IoMT, is a deep web of interconnected devices that increasingly plays a vital role in care delivery. Healthcare organizations, however, should not wait until these government mandates come into play.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

However, given the sensitive nature of healthcare data and the increasing frequency of cyberattacks targeting the healthcare sector, every hospital should consider establishing or partnering with a SOC. The decision to establish a SOC should not be based solely on the size of the organization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

We remain committed to creating a more seamless digital experience to meet our patients' needs and expectations and improve the health of our communities. Sanford Health is also focused on building a new pipeline of high-paying and rewarding, meaningful careers in healthcare cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Read more… QHIN Commentary at the ONC Annual Meeting. John made it to DC for the ONC Annual Meeting for the first time. Read more… A Three-Pronged Approach to Fortifying Healthcare Cybersecurity. Read more… NextGen Focusing on Practical Ways to Use AI to Improve Workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Healthcare decision-makers must lay a strong foundation and ensure that security measures are integrated into the design and implementation of connected devices and systems. Our cloud software hosted on AWS comes to mind for me. However, the job isn’t over once the implementation is completed.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2025

You show your papers and prove youve been meeting cybersecurity control expectations, whether from a regulatory or standard-of-practice perspective. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) has also expanded in version 2.0 ” How does one insulate the organization (and importantly, the executives) from these outcomes?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Big News From the ONC Meeting: QHINs, TEFCA, and HTI-1. Read more… The Crucial Role of Dual Incident Response Playbooks in Healthcare Cybersecurity.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

So, when you’re shopping for your next CPOE tool, remember this: Any smartphone-based tool for CPOE must meet the CMS requirements outlined above as well as all HIPAA requirements. Bottom line: Communication among team members via text message could be OK (as long as it’s secure), but orders must be communicated via CPOE.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 3, 2023

Woebot is a mental health ally that meets people where they are and supports them through life’s journey,” said James Johnson, managing director, MedTech Breakthrough. This year’s program attracted more than 4,000 nominations from over 17 different countries throughout the world. For more information visit MedTechBreakthrough.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the same way, investing in cybersecurity early on makes digitized healthcare manageable — preventing the dreaded cyber-attack before it ever infiltrates the hospital ecosystem. CMO Meet CISO, CISO Meet CMO It’s the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) who oversees this level of secure hospital management.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

Healthcare organizations may face countless cybersecurity challenges, but yours can rise to meet them by implementing multiple layers of security to safeguard critical systems. Research how cybersecurity can go sideways across the healthcare ecosystem and the top measures that you can use to course-correct as needed.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 26, 2021

While the COVID-19 emergency sparked a surge in telemedicine adoption and relaxed security and reimbursement rules, it also presented an increased threat to healthcare cybersecurity. We know that attackers will keep trying to infiltrate healthcare organizations – and we know that virtual care delivery is here to stay,” said Joel E.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 23, 2022

However, there are five best practices that HCPs should follow when working with these companies to ensure their healthcare data is secure. When performing due diligence on a healthcare cybersecurity provider, HCPs or other medical institutions should thoroughly research the company’s background and experience.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 24, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking feedback on its draft update to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. The framework aims to create a comprehensive cybersecurity framework for healthcare to meet HIPAA Security Rule requirements. NIST Cybersecurity Framework & the HIPAA Security Rule.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Ryan Hamilton, Chief Technology Officer at MacroHealth Healthcare is a vast web of interconnected systems consisting of payers, providers, and vendors. Organizations must properly vet all of its partners to ensure each one meets minimum security standards. It only takes the exploitation of one weak spot to create havoc.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The following is a guest article by Rodman Ramezanian, Global Cloud Threat Lead at Skyhigh Security Healthcare, like other sectors, is undergoing a massive digital transformation to meet the changing needs of patients and workers.

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Xealth

JULY 16, 2024

This comprehensive view allows for more effective risk management and ensures that all connected solutions meet the necessary security standards. Streamlined Compliance : Regulatory compliance is a significant concern in healthcare cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions Health Equity Predictions Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions Telehealth and VR Predictions And now, check out our community’s Telehealth and VR predictions.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2024

The 2023 PATCH Act requires manufacturers to meet criteria for the cybersecurity and transparency of their products and to support them with security patches across their full lifecycles. Almost half of those HDOs suffered a data breach. Government requirements enforcing baseline security on medical devices have only recently arrived.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2024

That’s why we were particularly interested in this session at HIMSS 2024 that looked at how to create a HIPAA-Compliant BYOD program which balanced the security needs of a healthcare organization while still meeting the workflow needs of their users.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Change and innovation are crucial not only to establishing strong cybersecurity measures within an organization but also to its long-term success overall. Brian Selfridge, Healthcare Cybersecurity & Risk Leader at CORL Technologies. Will LaSala, Field CTO at OneSpan.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

So, when you’re shopping for your next CPOE tool, remember this: Any smartphone-based tool for CPOE must meet the CMS requirements outlined above as well as all HIPAA requirements. Bottom line: Communication among team members via text message could be OK (as long as it’s secure), but orders must be communicated via CPOE.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

So, when you’re shopping for your next CPOE tool, remember this: Any smartphone-based tool for CPOE must meet the CMS requirements outlined above as well as all HIPAA requirements. Bottom line: Communication among team members via text message could be OK (as long as it’s secure), but orders must be communicated via CPOE.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

So, when you’re shopping for your next CPOE tool, remember this: Any smartphone-based tool for CPOE must meet the CMS requirements outlined above as well as all HIPAA requirements. Bottom line: Communication among team members via text message could be OK (as long as it’s secure), but orders must be communicated via CPOE.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

So, when you’re shopping for your next CPOE tool, remember this: Any smartphone-based tool for CPOE must meet the CMS requirements outlined above as well as all HIPAA requirements. Bottom line: Communication among team members via text message could be OK (as long as it’s secure), but orders must be communicated via CPOE.

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