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3 Tips for Securing Private Healthcare Data

by Jim Cropper, Director of Sales, Brother International Corporation 10/04/2022 Leave a Comment

Technology is a dominant force in healthcare. During the pandemic, healthcare systems relied on technology to swiftly move to virtual care, remote work, and more collaborative communication and data management systems – and that will accelerate. As organizations speed up their digital transformation initiatives and increase their reliance on digital applications, growing concerns about data privacy arise. According to a 2021 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey of 167 healthcare
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Report: How Cyberattacks Hurts Patient Care and Mortality Rates

by Syed Hamza Sohail 09/13/2022 Leave a Comment

Can Healthcare Withstand Hacking? Healthcare Apps Contain Vulnerabilities

What You Should Know: - Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, and Ponemon Institute, a top IT security research organization, today released the results of a new study on the effect of cybersecurity in healthcare. - The report, “Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare: The Cost and Impact on Patient Safety and Care,” found that 89% of the surveyed organizations experienced an average of 43 attacks in the past 12 months, almost one attack per week. More than 20% of the
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Referential Matching—What It Is and Why It Matters for Providers

by Letha Stewart, Director of Customer Relations at QuadraMed 07/23/2019 Leave a Comment

Referential Matching—What It Is and Why It Matters

Clean patient data is the critical first step for any successful health IT integration, EHR conversion, interoperability initiative or electronic information exchange. According to a recent Pew Charitable Trusts report, most hospital executives and administrators believe the accuracy of patient matching when information is exchanged between organizations with different EHR systems is subpar. Further, as health systems continue to consolidate and add more data to their networks, the importance of
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Protecting Medical Device Security in the Age of Ransomware

by Kayla Matthews, Contributing Writer 06/25/2018 Leave a Comment

Protecting Medical Device Security in the Age of Ransomware

From medication pumps to pacemakers, people depend on lifesaving devices to live their healthiest possible lives and manage chronic ailments. Many of those patients likely hear about cybercriminals orchestrating massive data breaches, and might get concerned about one of those incidents compromising their information.However, they probably haven’t considered the hackers might target the devices in their bodies or the ones they otherwise use for better well-being.Hospitals Must Pay Attention to
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3 Basics of Effective BYOD for Your Healthcare Organization

by Erica Garvin 02/12/2013 25 Comments

Imprivata’s David Ting talks about the basics of effective BYOD for your healthcare organization in successfully establishing mobile security.
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5 Ways to Leverage SSO (Single Sign On) Technology to Drive Meaningful Use

by Fred Pennic 04/17/2012 1 Comment

Last year, the Ponemon Institute, a research firm that advises organizations on data security and privacy, released a report revealing that each hospital loses an average $2 million a year in productivity when clinicians can't access electronic health records.
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