Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

The following is a guest article by Chris Bowen, Founder and CISO at ClearDATA The recent Cybersecurity concept paper from HHS, while a gesture towards progress, falls critically short of what’s imperative in today’s climate. It’s time for HHS to mandate and enforce rigorous, prescriptive cybersecurity standards.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Equity and access to digital health: Addressing disparities in access to technology and ensuring inclusive healthcare. Cybersecurity and data privacy: Protecting sensitive patient information in a digital environment. Specific Topics: Emerging technologies: Blockchain, AR/VR, and the metaverse in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it will update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 and will ask Congress for new laws and resources to increase civil money penalties for HIPAA violations, increase HIPAA enforcement, and conduct proactive audits.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2023

Read more… How A Security Operations Center Can Help Maintain Healthcare Cybersecurity. Increasing costs for cybersecurity insurance are hitting many health systems hard. Verifying patient identity and requiring authentication on an ongoing basis can help safeguard providers against fraud , said Bala Kumar at Jumio.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

Protecting Data Through Stronger Cybersecurity and Network Resilience With the increasing use of technology in healthcare, cybersecurity has become a critical concern. In 2022, the healthcare industry rose to the second most attacked industry in the United States and third most attacked globally.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Recent research from Skyhigh Security confirms that the healthcare industry is picking up its pace of cloud adoption, but that it remains slower to embrace the cloud than other industries.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

According to MarketsandMarkets , the global cybersecurity market is estimated to grow from 173.5 billion in 2022 to 266.2 Cybersecurity enhancements are driven by increased target-based cyber-attacks to draw operational disruptions. billion by 2027.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Purpose-built for healthcare, Censinet RiskOps TM is the world’s first and only cloud-based, HIPAA-secure risk exchange that enables healthcare organizations to share and manage risk data to strengthen cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

As always, there have been a lot of new products and partnerships announced at the event, with a heavy emphasis on generative AI, and we wanted to try and cover as much as we could for the Healthcare IT Today community. You can also visit our HIMSS23 page to see all our coverage of health IT’s biggest event.

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MARCH 23, 2022

Cybersecurity is not usually a top-of-mind item during a merger or acquisition, but experts say it should be. It doesn’t matter if you are a healthcare provider or a health IT company, there are real threats to data and system security as the organizations integrate together.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2023

Healthcare systems in the U.S. In 2022, for example, the combination of COVID-19, labor shortages, and inflation resulted in one of the worst financial years ever for U.S. If that sounds low, it’s because it is; multiple studies have found that enterprises spend anywhere from 10% to 20% of their IT budgets on security on average.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cyberattacks on healthcare institutions are not only particularly galling, they’re growing. Healthcare organizations were hit with 1,426 attacks per week in 2022, a 60 percent increase over the previous year, according to Check Point Research. This is what most of us thought when we read this story.

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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. About Ryan Witt Ryan Witt is a healthcare cybersecurity leader at the cybersecurity company Proofpoint.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 26, 2022

Hospitals and health systems have more to lose than organizations in other sectors when it comes to the impact of hacking activities and patient […]. It’s impossible to put a value on the trust your patients place in your organization to protect and safely store the data created in the course of caring for the community.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2022

Coming out of the HIMSS conference, one of the top topics at the conference was cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2022

When we talk about cybersecurity, we often like to talk about the financial elements of a breach. No doubt the financial impact is extremely important and can cost an organization dearly if they’re not prepared. You also often hear about the reputation impact a breach has on an organization when the breach hits the local […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Originally announced November 28th, 2022. The company also provides secure, cloud-based enterprise imaging as-a-service in partnership with Canon Medical, to help hospitals store, analyze, protect, and share medical images. To learn more visit www.gocloudwave.com.

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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. As a result, health IT administrators should be doubling down on ransomware recovery plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 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.

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