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Ransomware, Cloud, and Phishing: Decoding this Year’s Cybersecurity Landscape

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jason Griffin, MBA, CISM, Managing Director of Digital Health Strategy and Cyber Security Practice Leader at Nordic Consulting Over my 25-plus years working in healthcare information technology, I’ve witnessed firsthand the exponential growth of the threat landscape.

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How to Address Security Issues in IoT Devices – Cybersecurity

Healthcare IT Today

However, with billions of connected devices, the security of IoT devices in the healthcare industry has become a major concern, as cyber threats like data breaches and ransomware attacks can compromise sensitive medical information.

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OCR: HIPAA Security Rule Compliance Can Prevent and Mitigate Most Cyberattacks

HIPAA Journal

Healthcare hacking incidents have been steadily rising for a number of years. There was a 45% increase in hacking/IT incidents between 2019 and 2020, and in 2021, 66% of breaches of unsecured electronic protected health information were due to hacking and other IT incidents. ransomware, phishing) and how to respond,” said OCR.

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Internet of Things in Healthcare Interoperability and Security Issues

Compliancy Group

Keep reading to learn more about IoT within healthcare interoperability and how to mitigate issues that often arise within it. Are You Already Aware of How IoT Is Specifically Used Within Healthcare? IoT is a way of connecting multiple devices to exchange information.

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Driving Innovation in Healthcare: How an Ecosystem Approach to IoMT has the Potential to Transform Patient Care and Cost Management

Healthcare IT Today

From consumer wearables and smart home devices to point-of-care testing and other technologies used within hospitals and physician practices – these have traditionally existed in silos, capturing and transmitting data with minimal collaboration between providers, specialties, or organizations.

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Is Your Organization HITECH Compliant?

AIHC

The focus of this article is to “connect the dots” between Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) and HITECH regarding privacy and security of electronically protected health information (ePHI). It has to do with the every-evolving advancement in healthcare information technology. What is “HITECH”?

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Censinet Secures $9M in New Funding to Accelerate Third Party Risk Management in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Censinet’s mission is to take the risk out of healthcare,” said Ed Gaudet, CEO and Founder at Censinet. With the number of breaches escalating and ransomware now a direct threat to patient safety, the need for the healthcare industry to transform cyber risk management has never been more urgent. About Rex Health Ventures .