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Healthcare Data Breaches

Protecting AI’s Boundless Potential in Healthcare

by Mike Frane, VP of Product Management at Windstream Enterprise 12/08/2022 Leave a Comment

Protecting AI’s Boundless Potential in Healthcare

Artificial intelligence can do amazing things for patients, providers and the healthcare business — but only if the right cyber safeguards are in place. For more than a decade, a cybercrime syndicate known as Evil Corp has tormented organizations around the world with malware and ransomware attacks. And now, it seems, the group has designs on healthcare companies.  “Evil Corp should be considered a significant threat to the U.S. health sector,” the Health Sector Cybersecurity
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Mitigating Healthcare Cyber Risk Through Vendor Management

by Daniel Rosenberg and Nathalie Feria, Managers at Kaufman Rossin’s Risk Advisory Services 10/17/2022 Leave a Comment

Look to these best practices to enhance your organization’s vendor risk management program Vendor partnerships are critically important in today’s business world, especially as the pandemic accelerated many organizations’ digital transformation and the shift to remote operations, cloud adoption, and virtual services, such as those through telehealth, medical apps, and other healthcare technology and communication platforms continues to expand. This increased reliance on third parties also
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7 Health IT Industry Outlook Report Trends to Watch in 2022

by Syed Hamza Sohail 09/14/2022 Leave a Comment

7 Health IT Industry Outlook Report Trends to Watch in 2022

What You Should Know: - As COVID-19 accelerated demand for more advanced digital health and patient engagement technologies, hospital and health system IT departments shouldered these expectations – rolling out new capabilities in record time, while still balancing daily operational support responsibilities. Now, IT staff burnout has escalated into major career jumps, with many hospital IT departments struggling to fill talent gaps from high turnover. - Utilizing flexible staffing
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What COVID-19’s Attack on Healthcare Cybersecurity Taught Us About Its Shortcomings

by Avi Philipson, Head of Operations at Axis Health 08/17/2021 Leave a Comment

What COVID-19's Attack on Healthcare Cybersecurity Taught Us About Its Shortcomings

In the early chaos of the coronavirus pandemic, the healthcare industry struggled to keep up with an influx of patients amidst a shortage of necessary resources. During this time, healthcare staff naturally prioritized the health and safety of their patients, but this led to a marked decline of cybersecurity measures, leaving themselves open to attacks. Cybercriminals took advantage of the opportunity, and since the start of the pandemic to late 2020, cyberattacks on healthcare firms in the
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Healthcare Metadata Management: 3 Critical Capabilities to Creating A Unified, Automated Approach

by Amnon Drori, CEO of Octopai 02/01/2021 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Metadata Management: 3 Critical Capabilities to Creating A Unified, Automated Approach

The healthcare industry, like many others, has become a data driven industry collecting data from patients, doctors, labs, and payers that are all crucial to patient healthcare diagnosis and outcome. When it comes to research, data can be useful in creating emerging healthcare technological innovations, pharmaceutical discoveries, as well as other advances in the market but it also is accompanied by strong regulatory compliance, like stringent HIPAA laws, that dictate that this data is kept
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Telehealth and Cybersecurity: What You Should Know

by Jasmine Pennic 07/22/2020 Leave a Comment

New Telehealth Tablet Provides Clinical Collaboration Within Hospitals

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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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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Identity and Access Management – Bridging the Efficiency and Security Gap in Healthcare

by James Litton, CEO of Identity Automation 12/17/2019 Leave a Comment

Identity and Access Management – Bridging the Efficiency and Security Gap in Healthcare

The healthcare sector is charged with preserving some of the most sensitive information of any industry. Hospitals and clinics are required to securely store data, such as social security numbers, patient medical records, insurance policy details, and credit card numbers. Although healthcare administrators are confronted with copious amounts of sensitive information, it would be incorrect to assume that the industry is a beacon of cybersecurity best practices. In fact, 13.2 million patient
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Mastercard Unveils Suite of Healthcare Solutions to Detect Fraud & Protect Health Data

by Jasmine Pennic 10/28/2019 Leave a Comment

Mastercard Unveils Suite of Healthcare Solutions to Detect Fraud & Protect Health Data

- Mastercard unveils new suite of healthcare solutions to move beyond cards and reimagining how its technology and capabilities can benefit the healthcare ecosystem. - Mastercard Healthcare Solutions will develop and provide the tools needed to protect detect fraud, waste, and abuse, capture more revenue, and protect patient health data.Mastercard today unveiled Mastercard Healthcare Solutions, a new suite of products dedicated to helping healthcare partners detect fraud, waste, and abuse,
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Founded by Medical Doctors, Clinical Cyber Defense Systems (CCDS) Launches Security Analytics Platform

by Fred Pennic 09/25/2019 Leave a Comment

Clinical Cyber Defense Systems (CCDS) Launches in Boston with a Security Analytics Platform Created by Medical Doctors

- Founded by two medical doctors, Clinical Cyber Defense Systems (CCDS) officially launches in Boston with a new security analytics platform called DYNAMIKANALYTIX. - CCDS is a healthcare cyber defense systems manufacturer dedicated to protecting hospitals and preserving patient safety. - CCDS ‘ Active Threat Intelligence (ATI) solutions translate technical security findings into real-time healthcare outcomes so hospital leaders, from the CISO to the CMIO have access to actionable
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