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Guide to a Proactive Healthcare Cybersecurity Stance

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The Cost of a Cybersecurity Breach Cybersecurity at its core is a way to protect valuable data and personal identifiable information (PII), such as credit card information, social security numbers, tax records, and more.

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Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Difficult to Maintain, How a Security Operations Center Can Help

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Protecting a hospital’s IT assets and patient information has always been a monumental task, but the above factors make a strong case for adopting a security operations center. SOCs do much more than monitoring, tackling such disciplines as threat intelligence gathering, vulnerability assessment, incident detection, response, and recovery.

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Recent HHS Settlement Underscores the Importance Compliance Plays in Cybersecurity

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In a press release issued at the time of the settlement, then OCR Director, Roger Severino stated, “People need to trust that their private health information will remain exactly that; private. In another settlement announced in 2017, 21st Century Oncology, Inc. 21CO) faced a $2.3

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

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Healthcare firms have long been targets for cyber criminals. They handle data like protected health information (PHI), intellectual property (IP), clinical trial data and payment card data, giving attackers many options to cash in, and healthcare is a critical infrastructure industry that can be hardest hit by ransomware attacks.

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Pharma IT and AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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This year we saw the maturation of Claims and Health Information Exchanges, which enable a cost-effective and straightforward process for researchers to gain access to identified patients’ data. As DCTs and virtual site acceptance accelerates, a knock-on effect will be that more of these trials will include HEOR analysis.

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Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge. Within healthcare, the technology and expertise exist to help providers, payers, public health, health information exchanges, and healthcare IT companies exchange data.

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Healthcare AI Regulations and Ethics – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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Rapid issue correction triggered by changes in performance, which involves root-cause analysis, data updates, and model retraining to uphold accuracy. Both HIPAA and related state laws create strict guidelines and restrictions on collecting, using, and maintaining patient-protected health information.