Shifting electronic health records (EHRs) to cloud platforms offers transformative benefits for healthcare. Cloud-based EHRs streamline caregiver workflows, empower patient engagement, and enhance data security. Healthcare leaders gain cost savings, improved cybersecurity, and robust…
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital has alerted patients about a data breach incident involving Tableau, a data analytics tool. Research data shared on Tableau’s platform in 2018 and 2023 inadvertently contained publicly accessible links with…
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The healthcare sector faces cyber threats as cybercriminals target hospitals, leaking patient data and auctioning DNA records. The Karakurt group steals sensitive information from hospitals, while the Cl0p ransomware gang exposes healthcare details. Medicare…
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The following is a guest article by Terry Ray, SVP, Data Security GTM, and Field CTO at Imperva
Despite satisfying regulatory requirements, 93% of healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach within the past three…
Healthcare continues to have the highest data breach costs of all industries, according to a new report from IBM. It revealed that the average cost of a healthcare data breach is now $10.93 million…
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For the 59th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Rob McDonald, SVP of Strategy and Field CPO at Virtru and former CIO with Colin Hung replacing…
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For the 59th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Rob McDonald, SVP of Strategy and Field CPO at Virtru and former CIO with Colin Hung replacing…
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The number of patients affected by data breaches this year is on track to exceed last year’s total — healthcare organizations have already reported more than 330 breaches affecting 43 million people, which is…
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NHS England has advertised a procurement contract worth up to £35 million to create a new NHS privacy enhancing technology (NHS-PET), as part of its planned Federated Data Platform (FDP) programme. The announcement said NHS-PET…
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New research has revealed that nearly eight in 10 providers of frontline healthcare services within the UK have experienced at least one data breach since 2021. The Technology Lifeline: Charting Digital Progress in Healthcare research…
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