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

Amidst the Pandemic, IT Teams Turn to the Cloud to Protect Patient Data

by Amit Bareket, CEO and Co-Founder, Perimeter 81 09/22/2020 Leave a Comment

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The challenges facing healthcare during COVID-19 are more than biological. Healthcare providers are weathering a perfect storm as hackers take advantage of the commotion and ramp up their attack frequency and sophistication.  This isn’t surprising for those familiar with the hacker playbook, as cybercriminals typically go after victims that are the right combination of vulnerable and profitable. And right now, the valuable troves of personal health data held by providers, focused on battling
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Corindus Vascular Robotics CEO Departure, UPMC Enterprises’ New President, Nordic Consulting’s New CIO, Other Health IT Hires

by Fred Pennic 09/18/2020 Leave a Comment

Tele-Treatment: How We Close the Gap in Access to Care

Mark Toland, CEO of Corindus Vascular Robotics (acquired by Siemens for $1.1B last year), has announced his departure and will be joining BioStar Capital, a health-tech venture capital group focused on cardiovascular and orthopedic medical devices. As a partner and entrepreneur in residence, Mark will help to identify and develop innovative companies leveraging AI, deep learning, robotics, and other transformative technologies that address a wide range of unmet needs. The BioStar team has
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Medigate Raises $30M for Medical & IoT Device Security Solution

by Fred Pennic 09/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Medigate Raises $30M for Medical & IoT Device Security Solution

What You Should Know: - Medigate announced $30M in Series B financing to expand its medical and IoT device security solution to ensure patient privacy and safety. - Medigate fuses the knowledge and understanding of medical workflow and device identity and protocols with the reality of today’s cybersecurity threats. With Medigate, hospital networks can safely operate all medical devices on their network, enabling deployment of existing and new devices to patients while ensuring privacy and
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To Combat COVID-19, Philips Launches Rapid Equipment Deployment Kits

by Jasmine Pennic 08/13/2020 Leave a Comment

To Combat COVID-19, Philips Launches Rapid Equipment Deployment Kits

What You Should Know: - Philips today announced the launch of its Rapid Equipment Deployment Kits, which provide doctors with critical care patient monitoring solutions they can quickly implement in the ICU. The Rapid Equipment Deployment Kits use advanced patient monitoring technology to enable care teams to swiftly scale up critical care capabilities within just a few hours, and help hospitals meet on-demand access during these pressing times of COVID-19. - Arriving at hospitals
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DAS Health Acquires Managed IT Services and CyberSecurity Company Technology Seed

by Fred Pennic 08/03/2020 Leave a Comment

DAS Health Lands $6M to Accelerate Company Acquisition Strategy

- Both companies’ clients will gain an increased depth of IT and security support, and Technology Seed’s healthcare clients will now have a substantially improved value proposition DAS Health Ventures, Inc., a provider of health IT and management, announced today it completed the acquisition of Technology Seed, LLC, a managed IT and cybersecurity services company based in Salem, NH. This acquisition strengthens DAS’ position in the MSP sector and significantly advances its growth strategy to
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Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the COVID-19 Era

by Mario Paez, RPLU, CIPP/US, Director, Cyber & Technology E & O at Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC 07/23/2020 Leave a Comment

Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the COVID-19 Era

Healthcare IT consultants’ work involving health records may expose them – and their provider and payer clients – to regulatory, legal, financial, and reputational risk. These risks are potentially higher in the COVID-19 era, with many of their employees working from home and accessing sensitive records and networks from remote locations. According to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), there is a heightened risk of phishing, SMS phishing and other attacks using COVID-19 themes, and
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Telehealth and Cybersecurity: What You Should Know

by Jasmine Pennic 07/22/2020 Leave a Comment

Healthcare providers are seeing between 50 and 175 times (1) more patients via telehealth than before. Telehealth platforms* offer solutions for a wide array of different healthcare issues. An estimated 20 percent of all emergency room visits and 24 percent of routine office visits and outpatient volume could be delivered virtually via telehealth. Telehealth is a win-win for providers and patients. It both increases the availability of care while also reducing costs. However, telemedicine
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Top 3 Priority Areas for Healthcare CIOs in the Age of COVID-19

by Fred Pennic 07/17/2020 Leave a Comment

Top 3 Priority Areas for Healthcare CIOs in the Age of COVID-19

What You Should Know: - In the age of COVID-19, healthcare CIOs cite interoperability, cybersecurity, and operationalizing SDOH data priorities as top three priority areas, according to the third annual LexisNexis focus group of CHIME executives. - The survey results also highlighted the importance of a team approach with support across the organization in helping CIOs achieve the vision of connected healthcare.  The Health Care business of LexisNexis® Risk
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New Report Debunks Belief COVID-19 Increased Healthcare Data Breaches

by Jasmine Pennic 06/30/2020 Leave a Comment

New Report Debunks Belief COVID-19 Increased Healthcare Data Breaches

What You Should Know: - Vectra spotlight report on healthcare discredits the widely held belief that external threats would lead to an increase in data breaches during the COVID-19 pandemic. - According to Vectra, although opportunistic attacks against healthcare were up – and some might have succeeded – external activity does not appear to have led to an internal activity normally observed in successful attacks. Healthcare organizations in general are doing a good job of mitigating
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Social Distancing for Medical Devices: 5 Steps to Clinical Network Segmentation to Thwart Cyber-Attacks

by Leon Lerman, Cynerio CEO and Co-Founder 06/25/2020 Leave a Comment

Do We Know When Medical Devices Fail?

Since the beginning of 2020, cyber-attacks have spiked by 300%. As members of the world's most targeted industry, healthcare organizations like hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and distributors of medical equipment are more at risk now than ever.  Even if an attack isn't directly targeted at connected medical (or, Internet of Medical Things: IoMT) devices, it can spread through a hospital’s internal network and infect equipment used to diagnose and treat patients such as IV pumps, patient
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