The symplr 2024 Compass Survey highlights some key challenges that healthcare organizations are grappling with – and its findings suggest a need for systemic change. One of the biggest revelations is 85% of clinicians and…
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Introduction
The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued an urgent warning to the healthcare sector about the Godzilla web shell backdoor, a sophisticated cyberthreat tool believed to be used by Chinese state…
When it comes to targets in healthcare that criminals want to hit with a cyberattack, a telemedicine consultation might not immediately come to mind. But in fact, telehealth is a ripe arena for cyberattacks.There…
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What You Should Know:
– Ransomware attacks are a growing threat across all industries, but the healthcare sector is facing a particularly alarming surge in these incidents, according to new data from SafetyDevices.
– New…
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The Joint Public Health Cybersecurity Task Group, the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council and the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Joint Cyber Working Group are evaluating the current state of readiness within…
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What You Should Know:
– Bluespine, an AI-driven claims cost reduction platform for self-insured employers, has secured $7.2M in seed funding to address the pervasive issue of medical overbilling in the US healthcare system led…
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Tom Leary, head of Government Relations at HIMSS, is tracking what the change in the administration could mean for interoperability and data sharing regulations that are already well…
Health Catalyst, a U.S.-based provider of healthcare data and analytics for care organizations, signed a definitive agreement to acquire all equity interests of cybersecurity provider Intraprise Health for an aggregate purchase price of approximately…
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What You Should Know:
– Health Catalyst, a provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, has announced the acquisition of Intraprise Health, a leading healthcare cybersecurity provider.
– Health Catalyst funded the…
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From small community hospitals like Memorial Hospital and Manor in Bainbridge, Georgia, to the largest providers, ransomware, business email compromise and other cyber threats are causing daily care disruption in the United States. “America is…
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