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Healthcare Cybersecurity – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Scott Lundstrom, Senior Healthcare Strategist at OpenText Cybersecurity Accelerated move to zero trust: The healthcare industry is struggling against a dramatic increase in malware and ransomware attacks. Hospitals initially will focus on improved identity management, authentication, continuous verification, and fine-grained access controls.

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Third-Party Cyberattacks: The Healthcare Sector’s Achilles’ Heel

HIT Consultant

Earlier this year, Change Healthcare , a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare, experienced a ransomware attack that came into the organization’s network through a third-party provider, resulting in a theft of 4TB of data and costing Change $22 million in ransom. healthcare organization.”

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White House OMB is reviewing proposed cybersecurity updates to HIPAA

Healthcare It News

In 2018, HHS released an update of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's regulation to block the sharing of drug abuse treatment information for billing and payments, despite care coordination benefits cited by hospitals and providers that commented on the rulemaking.

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