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Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 3, 2024
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.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 12, 2024
It’s time for HHS to mandate and enforce rigorous, prescriptive cybersecurity standards. First and foremost, if you’re treating patients, there should be a clear mandate for certain minimum cybersecurity standards. Here I agree – we can use all the help we can get.
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Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Today, advanced security measures like encryption and access controls help to protect data from unauthorized access, which is important for patient privacy and allows institutions to comply with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 13, 2023
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.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 30, 2023
Healthcare systems in the U.S. In 2022, for example, the combination of COVID-19, labor shortages, and inflation resulted in one of the worst financial years ever for U.S. This can prove invaluable for economically challenged health systems that simply cannot afford a costly data breach. are under tremendous financial strain.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 16, 2024
The US Senate heard the weak excuses of the United Healthcare CEO who admitted Change Healthcare had not secured its Citrix systems with multifactor authentication (MFA) even though they had a written policy to do so, and that they failed to notify data breach victims by the HIPAA and state data breach law deadlines.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
That may sound obvious, but it’s easy for healthcare organizations to overcorrect in other areas like compliance. For example, in their attempts to delineate and identify data they consider the most sensitive, they may zero in on HIPAA records to satisfy government regulations.
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