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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Healthcare Cybersecurity | Healthcare Data Security | Ransomware | Hospital Security Breaches
OurCrowd Launches $100M Pandemic Innovation Fund to Invest in Companies on Front Lines of COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Israeli venture capital platform OurCrowd launches $100M Pandemic Fund to invest in companies on the front lines of COVID-19.
- The fund plans to raise $100M to invest in 15-20 companies focused on prevention & containment, treatment & healing, and community & disruption mitigation technology solutions to combat current and future pandemic.
OurCrowd,
a Jerusalem, Israel-based crowdfunded-venture investment platform, today
announced the launch of
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2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners Announced
What You Should Know:
- MedTech Breakthrough announces 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners that recognizes the top companies, people, platforms, and products in the health, fitness, and medical technology industries today.
- The 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Awards program is open to all individuals, companies, and organizations involved in producing digital health and medical technology products and services.
MedTech
Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that recognizes
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Examining a Hospital Ransomware Outbreak
Friendly security can save lives – and that’s not just a provocative phrase to get your attention. It’s actually true.
Hospitals are quickly becoming one of the hackers’ favorite ransomware targets. The steady stream of media reports announcing the latest healthcare facilities that were attacked indicates an end to this targeting is not likely around the corner – and that’s only based on the publicized cases.
Now we have new research showing us that at hospitals impacted by a data breach,
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COVID-19: Best Practices to Safeguard Organizations from Cybercriminals
While we may consider health largely a private concern in the United States, our nation depends on the continuity and availability of its healthcare system in a very public way, as evidenced by the current coronavirus outbreak. Our critical healthcare infrastructure is vulnerable at this time, no doubt, but it truly has been inspiring to see doctors, scientists, and other industry professionals from around the world come together to stop the spread of COVID-19. To fend off exploitative
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Healthcare Data Infrastructure Security Cannot Be Ignored During a Pandemic
The rapid advancement of technology has inspired hope in the healthcare industry, promising to employ artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based data platforms in life-altering ways. Surgery assisting robots and miraculously accurate AI-based cancer diagnosis methods are a few preliminary examples of what the industry can expect. With all these great technological strides being taken, however, compliance can easily be left in the dust. And with COVID-19 pushing the limits of healthcare systems
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CynergisTek’s PPMS Leverages AI to Combat COVID-19 Insider Snooping
What You Need to Know:
- CynergisTek, a provider of healthcare cybersecurity and information management announced it has updated its Patient Privacy Monitoring Services (PPMS) to proactively identify and stop insider snooping related to the COVID-19 virus.
- As the number of cases continues to rise, information on patients who have been diagnosed or tested for the virus is incredibly valuable. Many healthcare organizations face the threat of unauthorized
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Hospital Execs Believe Their EMRs Will Fail to Meet Their Future Needs, Report Finds
What You Need to Know:
- New Sage Growth Partners report reveals more than a quarter (27 percent) of respondents believe their EMR will fail to meet their future needs. COOs are the most pessimistic (67 percent) followed by CEOs (37 percent), and CFOs (34 percent).
- Hospital Technology Forecast 2020 market survey report reveals hospital leaders’ top health IT investment priorities, challenges, and opportunities.
- 35 percent of hospital executives say if they could go back in time,
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Chilmark Research: The Promise of AI & ML in Healthcare Report
What You Need to Know:
- New Chilmark Research report reveals artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies are capturing the imagination of investors and healthcare organizations—and are poised to expand healthcare frontiers.
- The latest report evaluates over 120 commercial AI/ML solutions in healthcare, explores future opportunities, and assesses obstacles to adoption at scale.
Interest and investment in healthcare AI/ML tools
is booming with approximately
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GE Healthcare Unveils Medical Device Cybersecurity Offering for Hospitals
- GE Healthcare introduced a new medical device cybersecurity service to help hospital groups fight against cybersecurity risks.
- The offering, entitled Skeye, blends industry expertise, AI and process management tools to augment hospitals’ existing resources and capabilities by providing proactive monitoring through a remote security operations center – helping them detect, analyze and respond to cybersecurity threats and events in real-time.
GE Healthcare has introduced a new
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