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Oct 16, 2024 · Image: Shutterstock. Artificial intelligence in healthcare is not futuristic anymore. Faced with workforce shortages, rising costs and need for better patient care, healthcare organizations are turning to AI.

Dec 18, 2024 · Field is responsible for all of ISMG's 28 global media properties and its team of journalists. He also helped to develop and lead ISMG's award-winning summit series that has brought together security practitioners and industry influencers from around the world, as well as ISMG's series of exclusive executive roundtables.

Oct 3, 2024 · As healthcare providers migrate their infrastructure and services to the cloud, they gain benefits such as increased flexibility, scalability and optimized patient data access and sharing. But misconceptions about cloud security are jeopardizing the security of electronic patient health information.

From attacks on hospitals that have disrupted operations for weeks to attacks on suppliers that have halted the critical flow of blood across an entire region of the country and the flow of financial information across much of the industry, healthcare's resiliency has been put to the test in a very profound way this year.

Oct 25, 2024 · Melanie Fontes Rainer, HHS OCR director, speaking at a HIPAA summit this week (Image: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee) As the final months of the Biden administration wrap up, regulators at the agency charged with enforcing HIPAA are racing to complete unfinished work they deem critically important to healthcare sector cybersecurity.

Mar 26, 2024 · The 2024 Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study — a collaboration between Censinet, KLAS, the American Hospital Association, Health-ISAC, and the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council — provides an overview on the state of healthcare cybersecurity preparedness, maturity, and resiliency.

Jun 20, 2024 · Watch this on-demand webinar where CrowdStrike’s healthcare team provides an interactive demo of Falcon Next-Gen SIEM innovations. The team also discusses Managed Falcon Complete Next-Gen SIEM capabilities, including managed detection and response.

Sep 30, 2024 · Image: CyberArk. Ransomware attacks have far-reaching consequences on healthcare organizations, extending well beyond financial losses. A University of Minnesota School of Public Health study found that hospital volume dropped by 17% to 26% during the first week of an attack. Between 2016 and 2021, disruptions from ransomware attacks resulted in an estimated 42 to 67 deaths of Medicare patients.

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