Remove Healthcare Cybersecurity Remove HIPAA Remove Industry Remove Leadership
article thumbnail

Healthcare Cybersecurity – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

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 And now, check out our community’s Healthcare Cybersecurity predictions. million per incident.

article thumbnail

Why Human Error is Just as Risky As Ransomware for Healthcare Cybersecurity

Healthcare IT Today

Ransomware attacks continue to plague the healthcare industry. In all, cyberattacks on healthcare more than doubled last year, with ransomware making up 28% of those attacks. But healthcare IT leaders have another cybersecurity challenge to overcome: human error. According to Verizon’s 2021 Data […].

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services

Healthcare IT Today

IT professionals in the healthcare industry must play their part. Healthcare systems in the clinical setting can immensely benefit from risk evaluation and asking the following questions: What if healthcare providers can’t access patient data when they are using electronic health records (EHR) systems to connect with patients?

HIPAA 89
article thumbnail

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

Healthcare IT Today

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.

EHR 99
article thumbnail

Fortifying Healthcare Against Critical Cybersecurity Threats: A Three-Pronged Approach

Healthcare IT Today

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.

article thumbnail

Featured Health IT Job: Manager – Senior Cyber Security Architect

Healthcare IT Today

Develops processes and procedures to validate information technology infrastructure, other reference architectures, configurations and access to cybersecurity infrastructure for industry best practices, and recommend changes to enhance cybersecurity posture and reduce risk where applicable. Licensure/Certification: CISSP-ISSAP.