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• The Global Pandemic Has Brought An Increase In External Threats. Still, The Insider Must Not Be Overlooked

  10/20/2020

  For some time, healthcare records and related data have included a wealth of information about a person – and that data, if not properly secured, can be sold on the Dark Web to enrich malicious adversaries. In fact, patient health information often fetches as much as $1,000 per record. When compared to other, more common personally identifiable information, like credit card data, which sells for between $12 - $20 per record, or email addresses, which often get sold in blocks of 1,000 for less than $100, you begin to understand why the healthcare industry increasingly finds itself a preferred target for cybercriminals: over the past decade, healthcare saw more than 2,100 data breaches.

• HIPAA vs. HITRUST, And Why It Matters

  10/31/2019

  As technology continues to permeate the healthcare industry, ensuring that technology partners are compliant with the most current security regulations in order to protect sensitive patient data has become critically importance. With more data in the cloud than ever before, and the imminent threat of a data breach continuously on the rise, it is no surprise just how significant protecting patient data has become. IBM’s 2018 “Cost of a Data Breach” study reports the global average cost of a single data breach is up 6.4 percent from 2017 to $3.86 million. The average cost for each lost or stolen record containing sensitive and confidential information also increased by 4.8 percent, to $148.

• What To Know Before Deploying Mobile Devices For Virtual Care And Remote Visitation

  5/22/2020

  Many healthcare organizations use mobile devices in both inpatient and outpatient settings to improve care quality, maximize the effectiveness of provider workforces, and enhance the patient experience. However, deploying devices during the COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique set of security and device management challenges.

• Healthcare Cybersecurity Is In A COVID-19 Tailspin

  10/26/2020

  As if stress levels in the healthcare industry aren’t high enough due to the COVID-19 pandemic, risks to our healthcare system’s already fragile cybersecurity infrastructure are at an all-time high. From increased cyberattacks, to exacerbated vulnerabilities, to costly human errors, our healthcare cybersecurity has been sent into a tailspin due to COVID-19 (if it wasn’t already before).

• 2020 Trends, Predictions, And Promising Applications For Technology And Healthcare

  12/20/2019

  We see the most promising applications in healthcare when real time decision making using simple data sets can relieve the burden on the caregiver and drive better outcomes for patients. For example, alarm fatigue in hospitals - both clinically and operationally - is a cause of lost productivity and decreased patient safety. AI technology can be applied to a smart pump to only sound an alarm when there is a critical need for intervention and to initiate an escalation process if there is no response.

• 4 Ways Hospitals Use Clinical Surveillance To Improve Patient Safety

  5/16/2019

  Patient safety problems, from hospital-acquired infections to medical errors, occur much too frequently. This year, 800 hospitals will incur reimbursement penalties from Medicare because of high rates of infections and patient injuries, and a recent Johns Hopkins study found that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. after heart disease and cancer.