The life-saving capabilities of technology in a healthcare environment are beyond dispute. Medical professionals in hospital environments rely on networked medical devices to access and share patient information rapidly to reduce the time it takes to make life-saving decisions and deliver essential patient care.
Connected devices in healthcare environments allow medical professionals to monitor patients more closely, improve medical assistance and use data for analytics and medical research.
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Healthcare Cybersecurity | Healthcare Data Security | Ransomware | Hospital Security Breaches
Nuvolo Secures Funding from Mayo Clinic to Accelerating OT/Cybersecurity Capabilities in Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Nuvolo, the world's fastest-growing workplace software company, today announced it has extended its Series C round for a total of $32 million.
- The latest investment comes from Mayo Clinic. Nuvolo will use the investment to advance the company's Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity solution which helps healthcare organizations, and other OT intensive industries, address the growing challenges posed by the proliferation of cybersecurity threats from
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What the Shift to 5G Will Mean for Healthcare Cybersecurity
5G has spent years hovering on the horizon, its industry-revolutionizing potential waiting just out of reach for healthcare providers and consumers. But now, the wait is (almost) over -- and for some, it already is. Mobile 5G began to make limited appearances in major cities across the country in the latter half of 2019. Those limits won’t be in place for long; however, a more comprehensive rollout is expected to sweep through the nation this year.
5G’s entry onto the scene has the
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Why Ransomware Poses a Threat to Both Providers & Patient Health
Ransomware attacks continue to wreak havoc on all types of organizations across almost every industry. The healthcare sector in particular has emerged as one of the top targets for ransomware gangs, and the impact can be more dire than for most others. According to new research by Tenable, ransomware is responsible for 46% of all data breaches in the healthcare sector, compared to 35% of data breaches across all verticals.
Just last month, a major hospital in Maryland lost access to a
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Cynerio Raises $30M to Expand Healthcare IoT Cybersecurity Platform
What You Should Know:
- Cynerio, a leading provider of Healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management solutions, today announced it has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund, Israel's pioneering HealthTech investment fund. Existing investors, global VC Accelmed, RDC, Elron’s joint venture with Rafael, and Swiss-based growth investor, MTIP, also participated in the funding round.
- Notably, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a nearly 50% increase in the
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Talking about Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Medical Devices Shouldn’t be Taboo
According to the National Vulnerability Database, 18,353 vulnerabilities were reported in 2020. That’s nearly three times the volume of vulnerabilities reported five years ago, and higher than any year in the previous two decades. Given the rise in connected devices, this increase is not entirely unexpected. If that’s the case, shouldn’t we be seeing more vulnerability disclosures related to medical devices?
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
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35% of Americans Would Prefer A Chip to a Vaccine Passport
What We Should Know:
- A 2021 Vaccine Passport Privacy Study of 1,000 American adults from NordVPN found that two-thirds of Americans (66%) would get a vaccine passport if it were required to travel, and even though the US may not require vaccine passports, 62% would still get one if it's required to visit other countries.
- Conducted by Propeller Insights, the survey reveals 40% expressed concerns it won’t be universal and another 38% are concerned they could be stolen or hacked.
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Mastercard, b.well Team Up on Digital Health Patient ID Verification for Interoperability
What You Should Know:
- b.well Connected Health today announced a partnership with Mastercard to provide individuals a simpler and more secure way to prove their identity online and in-person when accessing healthcare services.
- The partnership enables healthcare organizations to provide their members and patients with a biometric alternative to verify their identity in-person or virtually, replacing traditional processes involving physical documents such as a
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3 Barriers Stalling AI Adoption in Revenue Cycle Management
AI technology is quickly evolving and already surpassing human decision-making in certain instances; sometimes, in ways, we can’t explain. While many are alarmed by this, AI is producing some of the most effective and dramatic results in business today.
Adoption of AI in healthcare is growing, but there are still barriers to overcome
AI can be defined in many ways but, broadly, it is the ability of a machine to perform cognitive functions we associate with human minds, such as
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How to Optimize Your Healthcare Practice with Advanced Technology Solutions
As COVID-19 continues to influence patient behaviors and causes providers to reevaluate how they operate their businesses, healthcare practices all around the world started looking for solutions that emphasize clinical efficiencies, elevate patient revenue cycle management, as well as feature enhanced reporting, and analytics tools. More so, along with facing challenges of the patient intake process during a pandemic, providers have also been put to the test with learning how to meet the sudden
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