Healthcare remains firmly in hacker crosshairs. A recent survey finds that four out of five healthcare operators in the past year experienced at least one cybersecurity incident. Adding to the concern, 60 percent of those incidents had a “moderate or substantial” impact on patient care, and an additional 15% reported a “severe” impact.
The repercussions of a health hack extend far beyond financial losses. This makes it all the more important to secure health networks and devices to keep out
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Security Breaches
Nearly 60% of Healthcare Providers Experienced a Data Breach Since 2021
What You Should Know:
Nearly 60% of healthcare providers experienced one or more security breaches and 45% experienced a data breach from an outside source or distributed denial-of-service since 2021, according to a new report from SOTI. The annual report, The Technology Lifeline: Charting Digital Progress in Healthcare explores the evolving landscape of healthcare technology adoption, its impact on patient satisfaction and the top security risks that every IT leader should
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5 Key Trends Driving Purchasing Decisions in Healthcare IT
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve and transform with providers facing increasing financial burdens and dynamic patient expectations, Signify Research has had the opportunity to speak to 100s of C-suite health IT executives and departmental decision-makers. Our conversations with these healthcare leaders have provided greater insight into their organizations’ technology and business strategies. It has also illuminated their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. Here are
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KLAS-Bain: Post-Pandemic Investment Priorities for Healthcare Providers
What You Should Know:
- Competition in the provider IT space shows no signs of abating: Early-stage capital, big tech, and scale EMR players continue crowding into more segments. This has significant implications for providers as they transition into a new disruptive period, for software players as they fine-tune go-to-market models for the current environment, and for private equity investors as they look to invest behind winning themes.
- A new report by KLAS Research and Bain &
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Is Telehealth Healthcare’s Biggest Cyber Threat?
It’s time to get used to seeing your doctor from a digital screen, as virtual care is projected to expand well into the future. And while telehealth technology has proven to be highly beneficial in supporting the shift to virtual healthcare, it has also introduced a host of new vulnerabilities and opportunities for security breaches. Cybercriminals have always preyed on the healthcare industry, but with this virtual transition, the substantial increase in connectivity and network exposure has
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Why the Digital-First, Patient-Centered Care is Critical to Healthcare
In the turmoil of one of the hardest years the healthcare industry has experienced, many healthcare organizations innovated nearly overnight, transforming bedside tablets into virtual care providers and parking garages into field hospitals. Through the help of agile, flexible technology, healthcare has empowered providers to support patient care anywhere.
The pandemic created a tipping point: The healthcare industry must accelerate its drive toward a digital-first mentality.
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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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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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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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