By Zac Amos – Artificial intelligence powers healthcare operations, clinical decision support and administrative efficiency, but cybercriminals use the same tools to carry out more convincing, scalable and adaptive fraud. AI-enabled schemes exploit complex systems, data and human trust, making strong governance, technical controls and organizational awareness essential.
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By Scott Anderson – Many behavioral health agencies lack adequate controls to address and recover from a cybersecurity incident. What these agencies need are capabilities such as adequate backup and recovery, managed detection and response, security information and event management, data loss prevention and other key security elements.
By Troy Cruzen: Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and the holiday season is in full swing, this is the time of year when security teams start to worry, and for good reason. Attackers know people are distracted, short-staffed, and ready for some time off.
By Timothy Casey – Healthcare leaders, here’s the hard truth: Cyberattacks are no longer a “what if”—they’re a when. In 2024 alone, more than 500 major breaches compromised millions of patient records. And while most organizations think they’re covered, the reality is far more dangerous:
By Matt Fisher – The steady stream of settlements from the Office for Civil Rights continues. The underpinning to many of the recent settlements is notification following the occurrence of a data breach, often from some form of a cyber attack.
By Jay Trinckes – In recent years, healthcare organizations have struggled to address the rising number of data breaches and cyberattacks plaguing the industry. The Change Healthcare breach in particular caused the exposure of the protected health information of as many as one in three Americans earlier this year.
By Chuck Suitor – Picture a hospital where the power is out, patient records are inaccessible, and life-saving equipment has stopped functioning. This scenario could become a reality if we don’t take immediate action. Cyberattacks have evolved beyond mere data theft; they now pose a direct threat to patient safety and the integrity of our healthcare system.
By Matt Fisher – When will a healthcare organization suffer its first or next cyberattack? The phrasing of that question is intentional because reality has certainly moved into the “it’s a matter of when” phase and the “if” option is gone. Given that an attack needs to be expected, what is occurring to enable a ready to go response?
Any clinician, group, subgroup, virtual group, or APM Entity that wasn’t able to submit their MIPS data solely because of the Change Healthcare cyberattack can request reweighting now through October 11, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET.