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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.

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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 […].

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Cybersecurity Investment in Fundamental Tools and Training Is Key to Securing Your Healthcare Organization

Healthcare IT Today

According to Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc. Although attackers now use generative AI to quickly create persuasive email messages, there are a lot of ways a healthcare organization can defend themselves against these attacks and it often doesn’t require AI.

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Why HHS’ Cybersecurity Concept Paper Falls Short for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

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

Healthcare IT Today

Today, that figure is nearly 79%, which means that bad actors are specifically targeting the healthcare industry. Understaffing and lack of technical know-how also stymie healthcare’s efforts to maintain an adequate security posture. Healthcare is competing with every other industry for personnel.

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ViVE 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

Potential Key Talking Points for the Vive Digital Health Event 2024: Industry Trends: Data-driven healthcare: Leveraging data analytics for personalized medicine, population health management, and clinical decision support. Cybersecurity and data privacy: Protecting sensitive patient information in a digital environment.

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Healthcare Insights and Perspectives from Mac McMillan

Healthcare IT Today

He was founder of Cynergistek which recently sold to Clearwater so Mac could finally start his retirement where he’s still researching and following the healthcare security industry. We live tweeted Mac’s talk and here were some of the great healthcare security insights he shared. Good approach to cybersecurity.