Stronger Cybersecurity in Healthcare Starts with Smart Policy
Leaders across healthcare, technology, and policy circles agree that cybersecurity isn't just a technical necessity — it's foundational to patient safety
Preserving Profitability: Why Financial Redundancy Is Vital in Healthcare
While hospitals have contingency plans for events like power outages and extreme weather — backup generators, secondary chillers, and fiber for internet coverage — they can typically neglect vulnerabilities in the revenue cycle. Here are five proactive measures for hospitals and revenue cycle management/clearing house partners.
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Credit Monitoring Won’t Save You: The True Fallout of the Change Healthcare Hack is Just Beginning
The attack has given detailed dossiers on millions of lives to criminals, employers, enemies and anyone with the means and motivation to exploit them. This isn't just another data breach, it's a healthcare catastrophe — and it's being inexplicably downplayed.
Hacking the Hippocratic Oath: Four Ways to Shield Patients from Ransomware Attacks
A proactive cybersecurity stance can maintain the integrity of healthcare, ensuring that care remains both continuous and secure.
Healthcare Docket: A Near Doubling of Hospital System Cyberattacks Triggers Bipartisan Bill
Increasing costs and healthcare cybersecurity worries have sparked calls for new laws. The bipartisan “Strengthening Cybersecurity in Health Care Act” by four senators would require the HHS to perform routine evaluations of its systems and deliver biannual reports on practices and progress.
How Strong Cybersecurity Hygiene Can Help Rural Healthcare Systems Hack off the Hackers
Protecting rural healthcare and pharmaceutical networks is an ongoing effort that requires comprehensive cybersecurity that goes beyond traditional IT systems, combining technical solutions, employee education, and a commitment to staying up to date with evolving cyber threats.
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Hospitals and Medical Device Manufacturers Must Work Together on Cybersecurity
Greater collaboration among healthcare providers, medical device manufacturers, and lawmakers and regulators will lead to predictability and consistency in cybersecurity management. Together, we can make even greater strides toward patient safety and a more secure and sustainable healthcare system.
Building a national cybersecurity infrastructure is ‘virtually impossible’ without better federal collaboration
The federal government has established various departments and initiatives to promote cybersecurity among healthcare organizations, but experts say these efforts require more cross-agency collaboration in order to be effective. Most urgently, many cybersecurity experts are calling for the FDA to spend more time collaborating with other federal agencies on cybersecurity recommendations for medical devices.
The future of healthcare is dependent on securing AI-powered medical devices
As more connected medical devices are built on AI, cybersecurity risks will increase as well - and it’s more important than ever before for manufacturers to implement advanced security protections in the design phase to ensure the safety of healthcare organizations, providers and patients.
How entrepreneurs can meet the moment in digital healthcare innovation
As the popularity of digital healthcare only continues to grow, the innovative entrepreneurs who balance all factors of the ‘consumer’ patient experience will find the highest adoption.
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Transforming Patient Care: The Role of AI-Powered Assistants
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
Do no harm in 2020: How to effectively integrate cybersecurity and patient wellness
Thirty-six percent of health institutions were unable to deliver patient care for at least five hours because of a cyberattack, according to a 2019 AMA Accenture Medical Cybersecurity Survey.
Imprivata CIO drives home cybersecurity risks for hospitals and what they can do to minimize them
Imprivata CIO Aaron Miri called attention to cybersecurity risks hospitals face and ways they can reduce medical errors with biometrics.