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This webinar will provide an overview of what Blockchain is and will review the current opportunities and challenges of Blockchain in healthcare. The majority of the session will focus on real world Blockchain use cases under development within healthcare organizations.

Hospitals and health systems maintain over $360 billion of invested assets. Given the significant impact of these assets - representing two-thirds of annual revenues - strong leadership understands the role these assets play in the organization's mission, agrees upon and communicates a suitable investment platform, and secures the right advisors to ensure successful implementation of the plan.

Join Perry Carpenter, Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer at KnowBe4, in this practical session providing a high-level overview of the theory and practices used in today's successful cyber attacks. 

This presentation will provide guidance on how to improve security governance for healthcare M&A activities.

With 3.7 million medical devices in use today, medical device management has risen as a major healthcare concern. Effective management is hampered by information silos, limited budgets for medical device security, and the failure to capture critical data. HIMSS and Unisys conducted a joint survey to capture the state of medical device management practices across the industry.

A fragmented healthcare delivery system is widely acknowledged as a barrier to delivering high quality, cost-effective care. Disjointed care leads to complications, including medication errors, preventable hospital readmissions and unnecessary pain and suffering for patients, especially those requiring more intensive, complex medical services coordinated across multiple providers and settings. Patient-centered, longitudinal care coordination can play a significant role in preventing errors and reducing harm but many organizations haven’t fully committed to implementing standardized longitudinal care across multiple provider systems. As the need to manage medically complex patients grows and value-based reimbursement tightens, organizations must evaluate the impact of effective longitudinal care coordination.

In this webinar, we will discuss the benefits of deploying continuous monitoring as the foundation of your compliance validation program. Continuous monitoring with a cloud partner makes available, scalable resources such as people, processes, and technologies that even mid-sized healthcare organizations are challenged to provide. These resources can even be used to combat and adapt to new threats that prevent potential vulnerabilities from being exploited. Continuous monitoring meets the need for any organization to develop essential documentation and reporting required for audit support. Complying with annual audits can be expensive, resource intensive, and time-consuming. As with many mandates, compliance with the HIPAA security rule can become a gigantic annual checklist instead of its original intent of protecting ePHI from inadvertent disclosure and maintaining the privacy and security of patient data. Compliance with an audit does not demonstrate security program maturity but instead demonstrates a point-in-time check. Audits should be a culmination and external validation of a mature, continual process of internal security and compliance validation. We will also discuss how through the use of continuous monitoring, our client, Surgical Information Systems, achieved a demonstrably secure and compliant environment with fewer in-house resources. Continuous monitoring proactively identified and closed potential vulnerabilities as part of the ongoing process rather than retroactively, as a result of an audit or review. This partnership, where resources of the client and trusted are joined, removes much of the scramble for point-in-time report collection and presentation for auditors resulting in smoother and condensed audits.

The Information Security Media Group conducts an annual Healthcare Information Security Survey with the assistance of members of the Healthcare Info Security board of advisers that includes leading healthcare information security and IT experts.

This IDC Health Insights Industry Brief examines the cyberrisks of networked medical devices and the related security issues facing providers.

While data breaches cause significant harm to healthcare organizations, the damage is not limited to an individual hospital, provider, or business associate. Breaches threaten to undermine the success of the electronic health record (EHR) initiative as a whole. While EHR systems have great potential to improve cost efficiency, care delivery, and patient outcomes, that promise will only be realized if there is a strong, industry-wide foundation of information security.