Cybercriminals across the globe continue to target healthcare organizations, exploiting any vulnerability they can. Healthcare entities are still struggling to protect themselves against these hackers, whose tactics are getting more sophisticated by the day.
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Healthcare organizations are paying much more attention to cybersecurity in recent months, especially after Change Healthcare experienced a ransomware attack that debilitated its systems and disrupted claims payments nationwide and Ascension has been digging out from its…
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Mike Betsko, Sr. Director, Marketing & Solutions, Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Tim Dawson, Chief Technology Officer, Canon Medical Systems U.S.A.
Modern healthcare environments are charged with processing massive amounts of patient data in tandem with an extensive…
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At the end of March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services discussed its plans to create a centralized resource to help improve cybersecurity coordination for healthcare.
These plans come amid the fallout from…
As part of its recent efforts to bolster cybersecurity resilience across critical sectors nationwide, the White House this week announced a new initiative that enlists the private sector to help small and rural hospitals…
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While security training is considered helpful by most organizations, approximately 34 percent of healthcare leaders say that their organizations lack sufficient or effective employee training for cybersecurity. Without training, healthcare staff, including clinicians, may…
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The main goal of a hospital is to provide patients with optimal care. Unfortunately, events of the past few years have made achieving that objective more difficult. Increasing cyberattacks have forced hospital IT administrators…
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A new healthcare IT-focused thriller, written by a longtime health system leader, involves a hack into a national electronic health record system. The novel, Coded to Kill (Post Hill Press), is focused around two themes that…
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Cloud computing offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model, allowing organizations to pay only for the resources they consume and avoid upfront investments in hardware and infrastructure. This cost-efficiency enables organizations to allocate their IT budgets…
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As a starting point to address the high level of cybersecurity crime against the healthcare sector, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies offered strong recommendations for the executive branch, Congress and the healthcare ecosystem….
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