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Attackers vs Defenders – Healthcare Cybersecurity Comparison

Healthcare IT Today

Although, I’ve definitely followed enough of the wrong people in my life to know the ills of social media as well. When people say social media is awful, I often think they’re following the wrong people.

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CynergisTek Inc. Enters Into A Definitive Agreement To Be Acquired By Clearwater In A $17.7 Million Transaction

Healthcare IT Today

(NYSE American: CTEK), a leading cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and IT audit firm helping organizations in highly regulated industries navigate emerging security and privacy issues, announces it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Clearwater Compliance LLC (collectively with its affiliates, “Clearwater”), […].

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Why HHS’ Cybersecurity Concept Paper Falls Short for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

I agree that healthcare organizations can definitely use the resources, as they are faced with reduced margins. Moreover, the sector’s talent gap in cybersecurity is no secret, and it places our hospitals at a disadvantage, jeopardizing patient safety. Here I agree – we can use all the help we can get.

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Weekly Roundup – December 23, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Read more… Healthcare Needs a Concerted Effort to Define Responsible Use of AI. Read more… A Three-Pronged Approach to Fortifying Healthcare Cybersecurity. Robert (Bob) Murry about using AI for ambient clinical voice and allowing the patient-provider conversation to happen face-to-face again.

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Pharma IT and AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

With larger, interconnected data sets in the healthcare systems, AI will be able to identify those needle-in-a-haystack patients, and match them to the appropriate clinical trials or therapies.

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Telehealth and Cybersecurity: Is Your Crisis Solution Putting You at Risk?

GlobalMed

Right now, some of you may be thinking, “We’re safe; our video-only solution wasn’t HIPAA compliant at first but it definitely is now.” But cybercrime sharks are still hunting in healthcare waters – and video-only platforms are unfortunately still ripe for attack, as a recent study shows. Healthcare’s Insecurity Complex.

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Three Tough RCM Questions with Michael Quinn from Inovalon

Healthcare IT Today

What will change for the positive and what will remain the same after the Change Healthcare cybersecurity incident that has frozen payments in our industry? AI Making Meaningful Improvements to RCM In his response, Quinn highlighted the nebulous definition of AI. He is skeptical of these types of outlandish claims.

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