While firewalls, network monitoring and other security practices are imperative, it pays to give more thought to how to better secure endpoint computing.

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As the volume of healthcare data accelerates, health system leaders must take critical steps to elevate the quality, completeness and accessibility of data they capture, manage and aggregate.

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As majorly disruptive cyberattacks continue to make headlines in the healthcare world, hospitals are prioritizing cybersecurity more than ever before. This piece explores reactions from five different health system executives about the recent attack on Ascension — as well as what they’re doing to prevent a similar fate at their own organization and how they want things to change going forward.

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Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, faced bipartisan outrage from senators on the Senate Finance Committee angered by his company’s cybersecurity failures. Here were the key moments from the hearing on Wednesday.

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Where we’ve been, where we’re going, and how healthcare organizations can protect themselves from privacy risks caused by the Meta pixel and other third-party trackers

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What EHR/EMR vendors need to know to comply with ONC’s HTI-1 final rule

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Interoperability is moving ahead, but major health systems and hospitals in large population centers must ensure they don’t leave their smaller and more rural counterparts behind.

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Addressing preventable harm starts with breaking down the data silos that exist within the healthcare landscape and pulling disparate systems together through connected healthcare operations.

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Real-world analysis can provide insights into how factors largely out of rural residents’ control impact health outcomes and access to medical care. 

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Achieving strong cybersecurity is a vast, interconnected web that must incorporate the correct software, procedures, and workflows and take into account the human element across an entire organization.

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There are several steps that CISOs and cybersecurity professionals can take to get ahead of looming digital threats in the healthcare space.

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The lack of adoption of interoperability tools by healthcare providers is a complex issue that requires a multi-faceted approach

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This technology can result in reduced readmission rates, increased patient satisfaction, and a consistent flow of post-acute care revenue, especially in rural areas.

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In order to understand the current state of the healthcare system it is essential to have comprehensive sources of real-world and integrated data linked with data from across the healthcare ecosystem.

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A surge in cloud adoption by healthcare organizations brings new challenges, particularly in safeguarding data across diverse providers while meeting regulatory frameworks.

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The benefits of healthcare data are undeniable—more informed decisions, better diagnoses, enhanced operational efficiency, improved patient satisfaction—but all that data also creates significant challenges.

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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.

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In an interview at the Vive conference in Los Angeles, John Couris said that while he is sympathetic toward Change Healthcare’s current woes, he wants definitive answers soon.

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There is growing and coordinated momentum behind the goal of ensuring connected medical devices improve people’s lives without introducing them to cybersecurity threats and associated safety risks. There also is a proven playbook for implementing the type of multi-layered, security-by-design strategies these initiatives advocate.

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Proper data collection, analysis, and utilization has the potential to address long-standing health disparities and propel our healthcare system forward to serve all communities.

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From our experience providing identity management services to healthcare SaaS companies, here are five rules for building more secure SaaS applications. The list can serve as a guide either for healthcare organizations looking to move key operations to SaaS or to makers of SaaS applications for healthcare customers.

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Strengthening health IT infrastructure is a critical and necessary step toward abating the opioid crisis and evaluating the impact of how opioid settlement dollars are allocated across communities.

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The only way to effectively scale care coordination to meet the needs of digital consumers is through technology, combined with empowered staff and transformed processes.

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The more pharma companies do to become service providers in the personalized medicine era, the more they’ll succeed and the more lives they’ll help to save.

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Proven to offer cost-effective solutions, Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) can ease operational burdens for efficiency and enhance the relationship between patients and caregivers, enabling a more human-focused experience for all.

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By partnering with a cloud managed service provider, one can overcome cloud staffing and security issues and better align internal resources with the things that make your business special, like developing new apps and features that enhance healthcare services and improve health outcomes for end users.

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CPSI sold American HealthTech — its subsidiary that provides an EHR platform for the post-acute care market — to post-acute health IT vendor PointClickCare. American HealthTech’s customers have already begun transitioning to PointClickCare’s platform.

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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.

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By leveraging analytics to optimize the patient experience in clinical trials, patient attrition will decrease, improving clinical outcomes and research goals.

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Right-now value could come from extractive AI, a tool that gives organizations the power to put even handwritten text sent via images or PDF by digital fax into a structured data play.

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