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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Lloyd Price

APRIL 7, 2023

In the context of cybersecurity, DPI is used to detect and prevent malicious traffic that may be attempting to penetrate a network or steal sensitive information. For example, DPI can be used to identify and block traffic that contains malware, viruses, or other types of malicious code.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 18, 2023

Exec Summary: There have been 49 healthcare cybersecurity M&A deals this year as of June 18, 2023. The most active acquirers in the healthcare cybersecurity M&A space in 2023 have been Symphony Technology Group (10 deals), Thoma Bravo (7 deals), and Insight Partners (6 deals). To reduce competition.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When considering healthcare cybersecurity best practices, HIPAA security risk assessments and HIPAA remediation plans are essential. With October being “Cybersecurity Awareness Month,” security education and planning should be at the top of the list for many healthcare businesses. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Consulting which looked into the cybersecurity landscape of the region and how policies and other measures apply in the rising remote care segment. WHY IT MATTERS Healthcare cybersecurity frameworks across APAC nations, the report noted, are "not fully adapted" to remote care solutions nor are these harmonised across jurisdictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

For example, we know that many people are looking for a job that brings meaning and purpose, and there's no better place to make a difference every day than in healthcare. Sanford Health is also focused on building a new pipeline of high-paying and rewarding, meaningful careers in healthcare cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

AI tools can help healthcare organizations analyze large amounts of data and identify patterns that inform clinical decision-making. By leveraging ML/AI, healthcare organizations can provide personalized patient care, reduce the risk of medical errors, and optimize clinical outcomes.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 31, 2022

Though many companies insure themselves against business interruption costs due to security breaches in healthcare, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that insurers limit their exposure to cyberattack losses. For example: Scripps Health suffered a massive cybersecurity attack in May 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2022

It doesn’t matter if you are a healthcare provider or a health IT company, there are real threats to data and system security as the organizations integrate together. Aggressively eliminating duplicate systems, for example, is highly recommended. […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Governments are starting to act in response to the growing amount of cyber threats in the healthcare industry. For example, New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced a statewide proposal that calls for healthcare facilities to strengthen and protect their networks, which are critical to providing patient care.

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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. If that sounds low, it’s because it is; multiple studies have found that enterprises spend anywhere from 10% to 20% of their IT budgets on security on average.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2020

Though the Internet of Things (IoT) is proving its value in many industries, perhaps the most significant benefits to consumers can be found in healthcare. Here’s a prime example: Health organizations can deploy IoT to remotely monitor patients’ blood […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 19, 2020

It is not an overstatement to say that healthcare workers are the real heroes of the Covid-19 pandemic. Their rapid and selfless response is an incredible example of what we can achieve when good people collaborate and rise to the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Perform Vendor Risk Assessments Given the prevalence of data leaks in the healthcare sector, it’s essential to utilize a cybersecurity framework that considers risks brought to your organization by external parties. For example, suppose your hospital wants to use a new SaaS application that stores sensitive data.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It’s not just my hope that covered entities will learn from this example and proactively find and address their security risks, it’s what the law requires.” How Compliance Supports Your Security Posture Regulatory compliance requirements facilitate cybersecurity in several ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

He is both frustrated at all the challenges in healthcare and in awe of all the amazing people and technologies in healthcare. He also highlighted the lack of progress on reducing physician workload, mental health support, and health inequity.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2024

The 2023 PATCH Act requires manufacturers to meet criteria for the cybersecurity and transparency of their products and to support them with security patches across their full lifecycles. For example, the U.S. In 2024, government intervention will continue.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2023

The healthcare industry is extremely attractive to cybercriminals, primarily because it is plagued with outdated technology, and IT departments typically are not able to improve this based on budget and resource constraints. In 2023, health systems must make cybersecurity a top priority, otherwise, they will be putting patient data at risk.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

Additionally, this plan should outline, for example, whether to divert patients to another working facility or reschedule appointments. A contingency plan is also necessary for organizations to efficiently switch to manual systems if a breach occurs for tasks such as patient intake, lab orders, billing, charting, etc.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) is a security layer, or checkpoint, between enterprise users and cloud providers that offer a wide range of security benefits, like helping organizations identify where sensitive data lives in the cloud and what applications and services are being used by employees.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In March 2023, for example, Cerebral, a telehealth platform that provides online therapy and medication management to millions of users, reported a healthcare data breach that impacted more than 3.1 million individuals that stemmed from its use of tracking pixels.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Paper documents continue to be part of the healthcare document workflow, and oftentimes, it’s tricky integrating paper and digital content while streamlining daily operations and securing sensitive patient data to meet HIPAA compliance. Security and patient privacy are paramount when working in the healthcare field.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ryan Witt, Healthcare Cybersecurity Leader at Proofpoint The Internet of Medical Things, or IoMT, is a deep web of interconnected devices that increasingly plays a vital role in care delivery. About Ryan Witt Ryan Witt is a healthcare cybersecurity leader at the cybersecurity company Proofpoint.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2024

For the pharmacovigilance space, for example, this automation will begin as a tool for recommendations, suggestions or options for potential safety reports, but it will not fully replace human efforts particularly as there are concerns around data output consistency.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for these answers. The following is what they had to say on how to stay safe and can be used as a little check list for your healthcare cybersecurity efforts. Hackers are finding holes in the gaps created by fragmented systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

It is an exciting moment in time within the healthcare sector as we’re witnessing the accelerating pace at which technology is both developed and adopted. For example, caregivers can supplement care delivery with predictive care plans to drive improved outcomes.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Professionals can get cybersecurity training to prevent IT damage in their systems and educate clients and patients about healthcare cybersecurity. For example, if computer literacy is low, ask patients to use their computer browser rather than download an app to their telephone to log into sessions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

Data also brings in a preventative aspect – take a patient with chronic kidney disease, for example. For example, interactive patient care systems (IPS) utilize video connection, language interpretation, body language, and custom health education capabilities to engage each unique patient in the way that’s most effective.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions Health Equity Predictions Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions Telehealth and VR Predictions Value Based Care Predictions And now, check out our community’s Value Based Care predictions.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Earlier this summer, ransomware hit various American healthcare companies. . While we’ve seen so many attacks on critical infrastructure, this may be an example of how the effects of cyberattacks on healthcare systems could be potentially more dangerous (and deadly) than on any other critical industries.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

One example of leveraging AI as a tool to integrate new information sources could be by integrating natural language processing to both recognize audio, visual, and written communications and provide additional context or patient information from their EHR in real-time.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

For example, athletes’ recovery times from ACL/UCL reconstructions basically halved in time from what they used to be. Across the healthcare ecosystem, I expect retail pharmacies, payors, and providers to continue teaming up with telehealth startups to deliver affordable, specialized care for patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

For example, AI-powered speech recognition helps dentists and hygienists seamlessly capture notes during a patient visit without stopping and physically entering information.

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