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4 Data Security Challenges for Healthcare Organizations in 2022

HIT Consultant

The healthcare industry has always been a prominent target for cybercriminals worldwide. They can access high-value patient PHI/PII data and use it maliciously to disrupt the patient’s treatment routine and bring down uptime, which is critical. Data security is one of the most pressing challenges facing the healthcare industry today.

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Enhancing Workflow Automation for Healthcare Professionals

HIT Consultant

Like employers in most industries, healthcare organizations are battling to fill open positions amid the current tight labor market. This widespread scarcity of healthcare workers is forcing providers to cope by having practitioners handle tasks like data entry along with their normal patient care duties.

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys, Part 3: The Futures of Cybersecurity in Healthcare

Health Populi

health care organizations have experienced a data breach, one-third in the last 3 years, according to Software Advice’s 2024 Healthcare Data Security Survey released in May 2024. One small event in a patient’s healthcare journey can generate data shared by dozens of entities. At least one-half of U.S.