Privacy & Security
A change in administration isn’t the only thing that promises an interesting year. Editors from Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews discuss what to look for in telehealth and RPM, and emerging policies in AI and cybersecurity.
Julia Strandberg, executive vice president and chief business leader of connected care at Royal Philips, told MobiHealthNews she anticipates continued mergers, partnerships and AI innovation in 2025.
Join the editors of Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews as they forecast new trends and developments for the year ahead: AI, cybersecurity, patient engagement, reimbursement and rev cycle, virtual care and more.
Protected health information from Ocean State's online health and human services platform may be part of the cache of personal data posted to the dark web.
That has culminated in an estimated $21.9 billion in downtime losses over the past six years, a new report shows, with medical organizations experiencing 17 days of downtime per incident, on average.
This past year was a busy one, with new policy changes, cybersecurity challenges, EHR optimization advancements, innovations in patient care and, yes, a whole lot of AI.
It was another record-breaking year for healthcare cyberattacks, and healthcare providers' network servers were again prime targets for hackers.
Cybersecurity In Focus
The agency seeks to make its first HIPAA Security Rule update since 2013 to clarify what health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, providers and their business associates must do to protect the security of electronic protected health information.
Chike Okeke, chief information security officer of data exchange company Concord, offers his perspective on the safe and secure transfer of protected health information.
"The usage of AI and automatic vulnerability scanning performed by the attackers allows them to find an exposed IoT device and conduct an attack on it much quicker than they used to be able to," says one security researcher in a new report.