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Healthcare Cybersecurity – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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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. In 2024, the attack surface will continue to grow.

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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. For a healthcare entity, this number could drastically change, depending on the impact of the attack.

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Why HHS’ Cybersecurity Concept Paper Falls Short for Healthcare

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

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For example, Lloyd’s of London recently announced its coverages would no longer include cyber attacks from nation-states such as Russia and China. An example of this would be ensuring you are logging Event 4104, Powershell Script Block Logging. What Should Be Included in a SOC?

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Pharma IT and AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

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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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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Recent HHS Settlement Underscores the Importance Compliance Plays in Cybersecurity

Healthcare IT Today

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. How Compliance Supports Your Security Posture Regulatory compliance requirements facilitate cybersecurity in several ways.