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Healthcare Cybersecurity: Best Practices for Data Protection

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

When it comes to cybersecurity, it is important for organizations to take a proactive approach and implement strong safeguards to protect against potential threats. Healthcare cybersecurity refers to the measures and practices put in place to protect sensitive data and systems within the healthcare industry.

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Why HHS’ Cybersecurity Concept Paper Falls Short for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

First and foremost, if you’re treating patients, there should be a clear mandate for certain minimum cybersecurity standards. For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information.

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Ransomware Preparedness in Healthcare – Are you Doing the Basics?

Healthcare IT Today

An incident response plan is essential to provide impacted parties with a clear understanding of the protected health information (PHI) and/or electronically protected health information (ePHI) that was compromised, when the incident occurred, and what action is being taken by the organization.

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

Healthcare IT Today

Department of Defense is doing with its CMMC program that will require independent cybersecurity assessments of large and small defense contractors that work with sensitive information. Health data should be protected by a similar assessment requirement for health plans and providers to receive federal funds.

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

Healthcare IT Today

Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC). For example, caregivers can supplement care delivery with predictive care plans to drive improved outcomes.