After cyberattacks, large healthcare organizations must grapple with system clean-up and data breaches, potentially harming patient care due to service disruptions, exacting costs and garnering regulatory scrutiny on security vulnerabilities. This week we learned that the May…
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Unification of Content Will Unlock the Next Phase of Healthcare InnovationBy Greg Samios
Greg Samios, MBA is president and CEO of clinical effectiveness of Wolters Kluwer Health.
The pressures and challenges in the…
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Technology vendors announced some new tools and insights this week to help hospitals and health systems meet the rigorous data-protection demands of cybersecurity, while putting that data to work for better patient care. Akamai: Speed up…
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It’s Time to Rethink Healthcare’s Reliance on Legacy Tech Amid CyberattacksBy Tom Furr
Tom Furr is founder and CEO of PatientPay of Durham, NC.
One of the biggest questions surrounding a large-scale cyberattack…
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In addition to analyzing client ransomware incidents and other cyberattacks, the privacy and data security specialists at BakerHostetler compared incident response statistics across industries and looked at data breach regulatory response and lawsuits.Of all…
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Jim Broome, President and CTO, DirectDefense
It’s not a matter of if but when an organization will face a security incident. In 2023, the healthcare industry faced its toughest year, with over 124 million health…
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The following is a guest article by Troy Hawes, Managing Director at Moss Adams
The recent cybersecurity attack against Change Healthcare caused dramatic disruptions to one of the nation’s largest prescription processors.
On the morning of…
Why Healthcare Workers Are Prime Targets for Cyberattacks
Healthcare workers are, unfortunately, a favorite target for malicious actors for a few reasons. First, healthcare data is incredibly valuable; it contains personal health information and financial…
By Jill McKeon
March 26, 2024 – The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) released two sector alerts recently, each highlighting a different cyber threat tactic that bad actors may use to facilitate healthcare cyberattacks.
Both…
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Each health system is a unique enterprise with its own mission, locale and payer mix. However, many of hospitals’ biggest challenges remain the same throughout the sector — low reimbursement rates, proliferating cyberattacks and…
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