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Healthcare Cybersecurity | Healthcare Data Security | Ransomware | Hospital Security Breaches

3 Barriers Stalling AI Adoption in Revenue Cycle Management

by Kenya Smith, Healthcare Solution Marketing Manager at ABBYY 03/30/2021 Leave a Comment

3 Barriers to 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

by Terrence D. Sims, President of Strategic Growth and Marketing, Raintree Systems 03/01/2021 Leave a Comment

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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ECRI Institute: Top 10 Health Technology Hazards to Watch in 2021

by Fred Pennic 02/16/2021 Leave a Comment

ECRI Institute: Top 10 Health Technology Hazards to Watch in 2021

What You Should Know: - ECRI Institute identified the complexity of managing medical devices with COVID-19 emergency use authorization as the number one technology hazard in its Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2021 report. ECRI Institute’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards, now in its 14th year, identifies top health technology concerns that warrant attention from healthcare leaders. The hazards selected are based on a rigorous review of ECRI’s incident
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Escalating Cyberattacks on Healthcare Organizations Highlight Need for Security Interventions

by Michelle Drolet, CEO of Towerwall 02/15/2021 Leave a Comment

Escalating Cyberattacks on Healthcare Organizations Highlight Need for Security Interventions

Healthcare organizations have faced continual stress from heavy COVID-19 caseloads in 2020. Cyberattacks on their information networks also loomed as a serious threat, and the pressure to protect data is expected to grow this year, as more criminals target healthcare providers. Protecting patient data from unauthorized access has long been a regulatory prerequisite for healthcare organizations. But increasingly, cybercriminals see profit potential in attacking and crippling their networks,
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Leveraging Technology and Data for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

by Kevin Grauman, President and CEO, QLess 01/22/2021 Leave a Comment

Leveraging Technology and Data for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

After months of uncertainty, hope is finally on the horizon as three viable COVID-19 vaccine candidates are moving closer towards approvals for public distribution. Getting to this stage was extremely labor-intensive, but unfortunately, it’s not the end of the hardships. The coronavirus vaccine will represent the largest vaccine distribution in U.S. history, and manufacturing and distributing the vaccines will have its own fair share of difficulties for healthcare systems. In order to optimize
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To Beat COVID-19, We Need A Modern Approach to Public Health Data

by Ed Simcox, Chief Strategy Officer at LifeOmic 01/20/2021 Leave a Comment

To Beat COVID-19, We Need A Modern Approach to Public Health Data

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken 270,000 American lives to date, has shined a light on another crisis — the U.S. currently has no standardized system for reporting public health data. Health departments all over the country resort to using paper, fax, phone, and email to transmit and receive critical information, and essential healthcare workers are spending precious time retyping data into systems from printed reports and PDFs. At the heart of this lack of a centralized infrastructure
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IoMT Is Improving Patient Access: We Must Avoid Creating New Barriers

by Elza Seregelyi, Director at L-SPARK and Heidi Sveistrup, CEO at Bruyère Research Institute 01/18/2021 Leave a Comment

IoMT Is Improving Patient Access We Must Avoid Creating New Barriers

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is changing the face of healthcare and has the potential to significantly improve patient access as well as system efficiencies. The adoption of telemedicine, for example, spurred on by the Covid-19 pandemic, has spread rapidly.  Forrester revised its forecasts to predict that virtual care visits in the United States will soar to more than one billion this year—including 900 million visits related to Covid-19 specifically. Likewise, in the United Kingdom,
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Intraprise Health Acquires Compliance Solution HIPAA One – M&A

by Jasmine Pennic 01/06/2021 Leave a Comment

M&A: Intraprise Health Acquires Compliance Solution HIPAA One

What You Should Know:  -   Intraprise Health acquires HIPAA One to create comprehensive integrated security risk management and compliance platform for healthcare.  Intraprise Health, a provider of cybersecurity services and solutions and the Protect™ risk management software platform, today announced that it has acquired HIPAA One, a provider of HIPAA compliance automation software. The merger allows Intraprise Health to offer an integrated set of cybersecurity and
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Death by Ransomware: Poor Healthcare Cybersecurity

by Babur Khan, Technical Marketing Engineer at A10 Networks 01/05/2021 Leave a Comment

Death by Ransomware: Poor Healthcare Cybersecurity

If hackers attack your organization and you’re in an industry such as financial services, engineering, or manufacturing your risks are mostly monetary. But when it comes to healthcare cybersecurity, not only is there significant financial jeopardy, people’s health and wellbeing are also at risk so the stakes are much, much higher. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, there has been an almost 50 percent increase in healthcare cybersecurity data breaches between February
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CIO: 3 Rules for Meeting ONC/CMS Interoperability, While Improving Cybersecurity

by Scott Galbari, CTO & Drew Ivan, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Lyniate 12/31/2020 Leave a Comment

CIO: 3 Rules for Meeting ONC/CMS Interoperability, While Improving Cybersecurity

Healthcare data security has been a growing concern for CIOs for the last year or so, as hackers are increasingly targeting health information. Now, with a global pandemic forcing a shift to telemedicine and remote work, and new rules from the ONC and CMS introducing more regulatory burden, healthcare CIOs have more to manage than ever. Fortunately, it is possible to roll out new capabilities while simultaneously improving cybersecurity by following these three rules: Rule 1: Think Like an
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