By April Miller – Healthcare organizations rely on external vendors for critical services, from electronic health records to billing. Ongoing vendor oversight helps you protect sensitive data and maintain quality patient care.
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David Finn – As we wrap another October Cybersecurity Awareness Month, here are final thoughts and recommendations on the 3 challenges, Data Fragmentation & Interoperability Gaps, Legacy Technology & Medical Device Vulnerabilities, and Ransomware & Extortion Attacks. #BeCyberSafe
By Zac Amos – Healthcare systems depend on data exchange among electronic health records, connected medical devices and administrative networks. This creates environments where authorized clinical activity can closely resemble unauthorized access. Signature-based security tools may miss unauthorized activity that does not match a known attack pattern.
By Peter Leo – In healthcare AI, the quality of a model is inseparable from the quality of the clinical judgments used to train and evaluate it. An annotation is not a simple administrative label attached to an image or text file; it is a clinical interpretation made by a qualified reader.
By Pawan Toshniwal – The industry spent the better part of a decade trying to make the phone matter less. Portals, online booking, text-to-schedule links. Some of it helped. Most of it didn’t move the needle the way we all expected. Patient access was supposed to go digital, and in plenty of ways it did. The phone just never stopped ringing.
By Jason Mafera – After Boston Scientific disclosed a cyberattack on its systems in late August, it took the company 16 days to fully restore manufacturing and shipping operations. The incident illustrates how recovery can extend well beyond the initial disruption, even for sophisticated organizations.
By Douglas B. Vandergraph – Healthcare transformation programs rarely fail because leaders lack ambition. They fail because the distance between strategy and execution is filled with dependencies that nobody fully owns.
By Randy Kardas CPA – A healthcare organization can have a functioning EHR, billing platform and accounting system, yet still struggle to explain how a month of patient activity became a reported financial result. Each system answers a different question. Clinical records show care delivered.
By Dan L. Dodson – This month’s Defense Desk, brought to you by Fortified Health Security, is a perfect blend for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Learn what six years of hosting a monthly roundtable for healthcare cybersecurity leaders has taught Dan about the value of building the kind of room where that conversation is possible, and how you can build one yourself.