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The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom. Department of Health and Human Services to be much more active in the enforcement of healthcare privacy following recent, and increasing, events like the data breach with Change Healthcare.

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Strengthening Cybersecurity Preparedness for Small Organizations: Lessons from the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack

HIT Consultant

The US health system is in a desperate cybersecurity state of affairs. For example, throughout 2023 about one in three Americans were affected by health-related data breaches. Most of the largest hacks targeted vendors who bill, mail, or provide other services for hospitals, doctors, and other health providers.

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The Aftereffects of the CrowdStrike Outage

Healthcare IT Today

Many businesses and organizations came to an abrupt halt as all systems using CrowdStrike received the infamous blue screen of death. What other downtime issues should we be working on to prevent a similar widespread event across healthcare? Corporations need to remember that technology exists to serve human beings.

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5 Key Facts to Know About FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization Process

Exeed Regulatory Compliance

How Emergency Use Authorization of Medical Products Helps Provide Relief During a COVID-19 Major Crisis. It is a public health emergency of massive scale that has affected nearly all aspects of our life. The current COVID-19 global pandemic continues to remain out of control.

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How the Medical Industry Can Help Combat the Current Coronavirus Crisis

Exeed Regulatory Compliance

Travel is being restricted, large scale public events are likely to be cancelled, and schools and businesses may be closed to contain the spread of the virus. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has declared a public health emergency.

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AI Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Key Risks and Security Measures

HIT Consultant

Director of TPRM Strategy Morgan Hague, Manager of IT Risk Management at Meditology Services Leaps in healthcare technology continue to benefit humankind: from the advent of the X-ray in the 19 th century to dialysis, CT, MRI, and other machines in the 20 th century, to a new breadth of digital tools in this era.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2022 – July/August

SQA

SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary for July and August 2022. Health Canada. Health Canada is warning consumers about counterfeit BTNX Rapid Response COVID-19 antigen rapid test kits (25-pack boxes) found in Ontario. products in color and typeface and uses the BTNX Inc. and one distributor, Healthful Plus.