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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

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To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Bonus Features – May 26, 2024 – Only 43% of hospitals routinely exchange data, about 70% of organizations want to change archiving vendors, plus 24 more stories

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Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Only 43% of hospitals routinely engage in interoperable data exchange , according to the latest ONC data brief.

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5 Ways to Close the Cloud Security Gaps in Healthcare

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The following is a guest article by TJ Houske, Senior Vice President of Technology, Operations, and Engineering at OTAVA Ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations doubled in the last five years, according to a new study by JAMA Health Forum. The most common victims have been health clinics.

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Digital Transformation: How AI Could Spell a New Era of ‘Smart Care’

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The following is a guest article by Faramarz Farhoodi, Founder and CEO at AI Nexus Healthcare. Rather than transforming healthcare practices, I like to view it as transforming the way healthcare is practiced. . The term digital transformation can be interpreted in many different ways.

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Secure Your Hospital’s Future: The Critical Need for Robust Telemedicine Security

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The following is a guest article by Narinder Singh , Co-Founder and CEO at LookDeep Health In 2016, attackers gained unauthorized access to Banner Health’s systems through the payment processing system used in the organization’s food and beverage outlets and used it as a gateway to access patient information.

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Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration

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The following is a guest article by John Gaede, Director of Information Systems at Sky Lakes Medical Center. Now imagine that business is a hospital. Add to the scenario a global pandemic that is steadily ravaging the nation’s healthcare system. Imagine a rural business is the victim of a cyberattack.

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

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The following is a guest article by Preston Duren, Vice President of Cybersecurity Operations at Fortified Health Security The need for adequate cybersecurity has never been higher for the nation’s hospitals and health systems.