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Your Healthcare Hosting Provider Says They're Compliant, Can They Prove It?
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (229+ words) In a recent Healthcare IT Today interview, Kelly Goolsby, Director of Solution Architecture at Nexcess, says that many clients come to them after trying another managed hosting provider who made impressive claims but failed to follow through on compliance, security,…...
Unexpected Vulnerabilities: How to Contain Cyberattacks and Protect Patient Safety
1+ week, 4+ day ago (710+ words) The following is a guest article by Dr. Jaushin Lee, Founder and CEO at Zentera Systems If you see "healthcare" and "cybersecurity" in the same sentence, the discussion usually focuses on protecting electronic health records (EHRs), patient portals, or core…...
Strategies to Ensure Patients Have Secure and Meaningful Access to Their Health Data
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (331+ words) The stakes are higher than most realize. Interoperability is a patient safety strategy. Fragmented records don't stay in the background; they surface at the bedside, at the most critical moments. Solving for meaningful data access means investing in the governance…...
The Payment Integrity Reckoning
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1402+ words) The following is a guest article by Mark Noel, SVP and GM of Claim Insight at AMPS Why transparency and defensibility have become non-negotiable for health plans " and what it takes to build a program that actually holds up. Payment…...
Under Pressure: Why Pre-Bill Prevention is Now Non-Negotiable in Coding and Denial Management
3+ week, 6+ day ago (552+ words) The following is a guest article by Ritesh Ramesh, CEO at MDaudit Healthcare organizations are operating in an environment defined by financial pressure, regulatory scrutiny, and rapid shifts in payer behavior. Leadership teams are expected to maintain financial stability, protect…...
Healthcare Execs Under Siege Due to Ransomware Attacks
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (873+ words) The following is a guest article by Krishna Subramanian, Co-Founder and COO at Komprise Healthcare organizations have perennially been prime targets for ransomware. Patient records contain valuable personal and financial data. Hospitals also run critical services that cannot tolerate downtime....
Survey from Omega Systems Should Spur Investment in Healthcare Security | Healthcare IT Today
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (57+ words) In an industry where more than 50% of leaders consider it "inevitable" for a cyberattack to result someday in a patient fatality, cybersecurity takes on an urgency that surpasses business considerations. This statistic comes from a 2025 Healthcare IT Landscape Report by…...
Proofpoint's Intelligent Monitoring Catches Both Accidental and Malicious Email Breaches | Healthcare IT Today
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (55+ words) Proofpoint understands that data breaches can take place through outgoing as well as incoming communications, and through a wide variety of channels: email, chat, collaboration tools. At the recent HIMSS conference, Brittany Quemby from Healthcare IT Today saw a demo…...
Reframing Healthcare Cybersecurity in the Era of Generative AI: From Reactive Protection to Intelligent Resilience
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (499+ words) The following is a guest article by Shammi Thakur, Research Director at Mark Ntel Advisors Generative AI represents both the most transformative advancement in healthcare cybersecurity and the most significant escalation in cyber risk. Its impact is not inherently beneficial…...
Medi Quant Reduces Cyber Exposure, Tech Footprint, and Costs with Application Rationalization
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (209+ words) Healthcare IT Today Over the decades, IT systems proliferate at health care systems, particularly when individual departments install solutions optimized for their particular use case. Jim Jacobs, CEO at Medi Quant, points out that users tend to rely on existing…...