What You Should Know:
– FTI Consulting’s inaugural Hospital Operations Outlook Survey paints a picture of a healthcare industry navigating a complex post-pandemic environment. While hospitals strive to meet the evolving needs of patients and…
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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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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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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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What You Should Know:
– The healthcare industry faces a growing threat: cyberattacks targeting hospital IT systems. In response, the US government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has pledged over $50 million to…
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Brian Montgomery, Expert Security Engineer, Altera Digital Health
Being an avid soccer fan, player, and coach, I’ve heard countless times that “the best defense is a good offense.” As a cybersecurity professional, the concept of…
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The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to do more to help health systems, health plans and other healthcare organizations manage the increasingly disruptive fallout…
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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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