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Connected Medical Devices—the Next Target for Ransomware Attacks

Healthcare IT Today

While we haven’t seen threat actors widely exploiting the vulnerabilities in the wild, it is only a matter of time—and the results of an event like an IoMT ransomware attack will be devastating to patients’ safety and wellbeing. There are millions of vulnerable medical devices presently in operation.

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Patching Cybersecurity Gaps in Healthcare, with New FDA Guidelines and Zero Trust

HIT Consultant

When it comes to protecting patients from the impacts of ransomware, the time has come for the healthcare sector to rethink the way it approaches cyber resilience — starting with Zero Trust strategies. The unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector has upended long-held assumptions about network security.

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Addressing telehealth's cybersecurity risk will be an industry-wide problem

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Experts have repeatedly predicted that telehealth would present a major challenge for healthcare cybersecurity in the coming year. This is particularly important, he said, given that patient safety can be on the line – as we've seen with the fallout and continued disruption from high-profile ransomware cases over the last year.

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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. In its first iteration, ransomware would encrypt and extort.

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Healthcare Is A Cyber Criminal’s Dream, But It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way

HIT Consultant

It presents the intersection of a data treasure trove, weak security posture, limited resources, complicated supply chain, and patient care delivery. In 2016 when the FDA released their postmarket cybersecurity guidance, it stipulated the collection of so-called cybersecurity signals. Vidya Murthy, Chief Operating Officer at MedCrypt.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Luke’s surgeons open independent Idaho orthopedic clinic Court dismisses legal case over Idaho health grants, but investigation isn’t over Saint Alphonsus to break ground on new medical health plaza in Caldwell Portneuf Medical Center experienced a ransomware attack. to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M

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Health Provider News

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Grisham proposes spending increase for housing, education and health care NEW YORK 6 Mount Sinai hospitals out of UnitedHealthcare network amid dispute 2 New York systems hit with cease-and-desist letters 7 hospital expansions in 6 days Hospitals sue ransomware group Judge tosses lawsuit challenging New York nursing home staffing law.