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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. Smaller hospitals and health care systems also benefit from having a SOC because they also handle sensitive data.

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CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients

CMS.gov

It’s 2018—most doctors are using electronic health records (EHRs) and most patients have access to the Internet and a smartphone, providing many ways to view healthcare data securely. The truth is, as the largest healthcare payer in the country, CMS should have had a CHIO function long ago.