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5 Ways Health Systems Can Improve Their Cybersecurity in 2018

Redox

Last year was a discouraging one for healthcare data security, and this year seems to be off to a rocky start as well. According to a survey by KPMG, 47 percent of healthcare providers and health plans said they had faced security-related HIPAA violations or cyber-attacks that compromised patient data in 2017.

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

Healthcare IT Today

However, when the cost of hospital cyber incident remediation tops $10 million and cyber insurance continues to skyrocket, IT leaders and the C-suite must take healthcare data security seriously.

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CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients

CMS.gov

That is why CMS created the new role of CMS Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) and has begun the process of filling this new role with a leading healthcare IT talent. The CHIO will drive health IT and data sharing to enhance healthcare delivery, improve health outcomes, drive down costs, and empower patients.