Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The following is a guest article by Shawn Fergason, Senior Vice President of Information Technology and Technology Services at MediQuant Securing healthcare data archiving is not just good practice – it’s essential for safeguarding confidential patient information and should be a cornerstone of a healthcare organization’s cybersecurity program.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2024

Incident response is also “essential,” and staff must learn how to restore data and applications quickly after a cyberattack. Watch the video for more background on healthcare cybersecurity fundamentals, the importance of cybersecurity training, and things you can do to better secure your organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Andy Oram dove into the approach Health Note is taking to questionnaires, which includes combing EHR data to create specific questions relevant to each patient and customizing for different types of care providers , including schools and community clinics. Read more… CIO Podcast : Health IT’s Role in Leadership.

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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. This isn’t just about data; it’s about lives. The time for half-measures is over.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Potential Key Talking Points for the Vive Digital Health Event 2024: Industry Trends: Data-driven healthcare: Leveraging data analytics for personalized medicine, population health management, and clinical decision support. Cybersecurity and data privacy: Protecting sensitive patient information in a digital environment.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2022

While last year was disastrous for healthcare security incidents, it seems that cybersecurity budgets still haven’t risen to meet demand.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 3, 2023

It is impossible to protect your data and the safety of your patients and employees without knowing what you must protect. Protect Identities The adversary is after your identity to find your data and execute their attacks. A successful adversary was able to operate in an organization’s “blind spot” throughout the attack.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 3, 2023

The mission of the MedTech Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work and success in a range of health and medical technology categories, including Telehealth, Clinical Administration, Patient Engagement, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Virtual Care, Medical Devices, Medical Data and many more.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

Telemedicine and remote patient monitoring can also help healthcare organizations extend their reach and provide care to patients in remote areas. Another emerging technology in healthcare is artificial intelligence (AI). Cyberattacks compromise patient data and disrupt clinical workflows, putting patient care at risk.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

But health care presents particular challenges, discussed in this video with John Wilson, Director of Sales, SLED and Healthcare at SolarWinds and Scott Pross, Vice President of Technology, Monalytic , a SolarWinds company. Wilson and Pross make up part of the new dedicated team that SolarWinds has put together for healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2022

He then reframed security for us to focus not on the data, but on the patient. When you lose some data, that doesn’t seem like that big of an issue. We've been focused on protecting the data versus protecting the patient. Pay us to unencrypt your data 2. Pay us to not leak your data 3.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2023

The following is a guest article by Anis Trabelsi, Chief Information Officer at Palomar Health As the CIO of a healthcare system, I am acutely aware of the critical role that cybersecurity plays in safeguarding sensitive data. Developing Effective Leadership Building the right team also entails fostering effective leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

We reached out to our network of security experts to get their opinions and perpsectives on the Ascension ransomware attack and what healthcare should learn from it. Health data should be protected by a similar assessment requirement for health plans and providers to receive federal funds.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The following is a guest article by Anthony Murray, Chief Interoperability Officer at MRO In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2023

Today’s world is increasingly driven by technology and digitalization, and the healthcare industry finds itself at a vital intersection between patient care and data security. This stark contrast between the magnitude of cyber risks and the allocation of resources to protect patient data has become an urgent concern.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here’s what HDOs should be prepared for in 2024: Cyber Insurers will no Longer Absolve HDOs of their Responsibilities to Avoid Data Breaches The days when holding cyber insurance amounted to a “get-out-of-data-breaches-free” card are dwindling. Almost half of those HDOs suffered a data breach.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is because health data continues to move away from the barriers of manual approach and towards online platforms. The most valuable commodity today is data. Healthcare is the number one type of data hackers set their sites on, and healthcare identity fraud is prevalent.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 11, 2024

On one side, integrating technology into healthcare delivery has unlocked new heights in patient care and operational efficiency. On the other, it has exposed these companies to a gamut of cyber threats, making them prime targets for data breaches and ransomware attacks. The stakes are exceptionally high in healthtech.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2023

From consumer wearables and smart home devices to point-of-care testing and other technologies used within hospitals and physician practices – these have traditionally existed in silos, capturing and transmitting data with minimal collaboration between providers, specialties, or organizations. However, it is usually piecemealed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2022

The following is a guest article by Steven Martin, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Technology at Change Healthcare. The accelerating migration to value-based healthcare models makes addressing inefficiencies more vital than ever.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As technology grows, we have fallen into the practice of taking images of our private health data and have also stored them in smart devices using wallets. With regulations still catching up on AI-powered solutions, it is too early to say how much personal data we have already given to firms to use or abuse freely. What do I mean?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ferdinand Hamada, Managing Director of Healthcare at MorganFranklin Consulting The healthcare sector has faced an unprecedented surge of serious cybersecurity threats in recent months. IAM not only protects against external threats but also reduces internal risks.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. When decommissioning healthcare systems to archive legacy data, there are often significant tradeoffs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

In this video, two leaders in the field discuss two recent initiatives: The Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study , co-led by Censinet, KLAS Research, and the American Hospital Association, and the Hospital Cyber Resiliency Initiative Landscape Analysis , a recently published report by the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The following is a guest article by Gerry Blass, President and CEO at ComplyAssistant and Donna Grindle, Founder and CEO at Kardon. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth applications and services was on the rise. A January 2020 survey by the American College of Physicians (ACP) showed an increase in usage […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

Guide and counsel technical and non-technical teams standards and practices required for all applicable Federal and State regulations based on the classification of the data and business use cases to ensure compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

This means ensuring better alignment on objectives (cost vs growth vs clinical vs satisfaction), it means operational work to evolve human processes and workflows, it means systems work to break down data silos and connect different data sets in real-time, and it means culture changes among administrators and practitioners.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Healthcare organizations store an extensive archive of personal health information (PHI) and their accompanying financial records that, if stolen, can be incredibly lucrative for the attacker and especially detrimental to the victim. data), and more importantly their patients, remain safe. and sadly, often cannot be replaced.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the next phase in the evolution of interoperability, SDC allows for the secure and near real-time sharing of health data between devices at the point of care, regardless of the manufacturer. Hospitals want to use devices of their choosing and have them connect to one another so they can act on clinical data more easily.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The recent news of medical facilities halting operations due to cyberattacks highlights just how important it is for healthcare cybersecurity professionals to properly discover, track, and manage all of the devices on a facility’s network, including medical devices.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chad Peterson, Managing Director at NetSPI As ransomware attacks become more sophisticated, healthcare organizations have become desirable targets due to the valuable data shared across medical records and the constant need for service availability.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2020

The 21st Century CURES Act Final Rule is a major change for healthcare data interchange. The reason being is because patients are now entitled to use Application Programming Interfaces to download their health data into their application of choice.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2021

After a data breach, SkyMed, a company that provides emergency evacuation memberships for travelers, was cited in December 2020 for not properly protecting member information, failing to adequately assess risks, and failing to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2020

During a conversation with a friend earlier this week discussing healthcare information security, she made one very important point. She is concerned about her personal data being taken or exposed in a ransomware attack or data breach if she decides to get treatment at one of the facilities near her house.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

New research has concluded that healthcare CIOs see analyzing social determinants of health data as a top priority going forward, along with tackling data interoperability and cybersecurity. Focus group leads asked the […].

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

“If data is everywhere, how do you protect it?” This thought has been on my mind well before the Change Healthcare hacks (that’s plural) with which U.S. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

The healthcare threat landscape underscores the critical importance of safeguarding patient data and protecting digital health ecosystems against cyber threats such as unauthorized access, account takeover (ATO), and internal misuse.

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