Thursday, January 9, 2025
A health care business has possessions on very sensitive data from their patients. This data ranges from their full name and address to their social security numbers, as well as credit card numbers in many cases. This makes a health care organization particularly likely to get attacked in some way. A cybercriminal, for example, will
[ Read More ]The healthcare sector has already embraced the cloud and the digital transformation of their technological systems and business models, even before the new coronavirus pandemic. Many have been comfortably working with this technology. For others, the recent pandemic forced unready and unwilling healthcare companies to change to allow patients remote treatment and telemedicine quickly. As
[ Read More ]Our society is swiftly moving towards digitalization. Photos, documents, thoughts, banks — our identities are transformed into coded data. Consequently, the digitalization tendency is taking over one of the most vital industries — healthcare. Unfortunately, the healthcare industry is not keeping pace with a change yet. Despite the necessity for digitalization, the medical industry is
[ Read More ]The COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses across the globe to find new, non-traditional ways to keep their businesses afloat and their employees safe. Hospitals and healthcare systems face the unique challenge of preparing for the worst while also protecting their employees as COVID-19 continues to spread. With frontline healthcare workers having no choice but to
[ Read More ]Cybersecurity is one of the top concerns in the U.S. healthcare industry today. Cyberattacks do not only negatively impact the businesses in healthcare, but it also compromises the security and privacy of patients’ data. Unfortunately, basic measures were not making the cut and forced federal agencies to pass a new law called the HIPAA Safe
[ Read More ]As the year 2020 approached its mid-months, the world saw huge modifications in the work culture. The office trends have made rapid shifts from corporate in-house working to remote working necessity. As 2021 has reached its mid-months and we still continue to fight for our survival with the unknown Covid mutations, companies struggle to maintain
[ Read More ]While technology is the strongest tool of the healthcare department these days, it is also its weakest link. Sure, the advanced medical equipment, coupled with complex and sophisticated software, improved the efficiency of operations and enhanced accuracy. But it also increased our dependency on technology. With increased dependency comes an increased need to entrust the
[ Read More ]The word “unprecedented†has come up a lot these days, but as cliche as it sounds, these truly are unprecedented times when it comes to security in the healthcare sector. As was the case for countless other industries, healthcare organizations were suddenly forced to find ways to make care available virtually. And while this move
[ Read More ]When it comes to valuable information, organizations within the medical field are sitting on a goldmine, at least in the eyes of hackers. While lots of other kinds of businesses and organizations might have credit card information or password information stolen from time to time, there’s a key difference between that kind of information and
[ Read More ]Recently we have seen that medical information which includes health-related information, personal information, or medical billing of any individual or any patient is getting breached. It was three times the amount seen in 2007. For about eight months, the American medical collection agency was hacked (AMCA) and taking the data of 25 million patients. In
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