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Faith Regional Health Services, based in Norfolk, Nebraska, needed to replace its legacy wireless network. THE PROBLEM The network was old, and a replacement was due. The healthcare organization did not really use that particular vendor anywhere else any longer. Basically, it was a wireless network that had reached end of life. The access points were […]
Four out of five organizations surveyed for a report released Wednesday have experienced a cybersecurity breach precipitated by a third-party vendor over the past 12 months, according to chief information officers, chief information security officers and other C-suite leaders polled. What’s more, the report, from cyber services firm BlueVoyant, found that of the 1,500-plus security […]
Matthew Kull, who has served as Cleveland Clinic’s interim Chief Information Officer since November 2019, has been appointed to the role on a full-time basis. WHY IT MATTERS Kull joined Cleveland Clinic two years ago as associate CIO of the health system’s information technology division, and has been a key driver of its ongoing digital […]
The various technologies that make up IT infrastructure are the foundation for all the other forms of health IT that make hospitals and health systems operate effectively. As such, infrastructure technologies are among the most important in the healthcare information technology arena, and they must be operating optimally. Here, three infrastructure technology experts from Cisco […]
Telemedicine has been gaining a lot of steam in recent years. And it has become an increasingly important component of healthcare delivery. As a result, provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders have had their hands full finding and implementing new telemedicine technologies to help their organizations best reach as many patients as possible […]
Cyberattacks, especially those stemming from phishing schemes, continue to plague healthcare organizations, but some aspects of company response and employee awareness appear to be improving, according to this year’s Data Security Incident Response Report from leading data privacy and cybersecurity law firm BakerHostetler. WHY THIS MATTERS Healthcare industry entities comprise one-quarter of incidents analyzed in […]
Dr NT Cheung has been the Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) of Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority (HA) for the past 26 years. The HA is a statutory body established under the Hospital Authority Ordinance in 1990 and has been responsible for managing Hong Kong’s public hospitals’ services since December 1991. As the CMIO, Dr Cheung […]
Since the first week of August, researchers have seen an uptick in a new ransomware strain similar to the notorious SamSam virus, warned the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Healthcare Cybersecurity Communications and Integration Center in an alert. Ryuk isn’t technically advanced, but the highly targeted, planned ransomware variant has several interesting features […]