January 7, 2025
Taking a coordinated approach to strengthen rural healthcare systems against cyber attacks
Over the last several years, the healthcare industry has seen a dramatic increase in cyber incidents that target smaller rural hospitals and health centers, requiring a coordinated, proactive defense by electronic health record (EHR) vendors and data security companies.
April 23, 2024
How MEDITECH’s approach to cybersecurity ensures safety for patients, providers, and organizations
Following the recent ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, many healthcare organizations are rightly reviewing and considering their cybersecurity posture — and that of their EHR vendor. At MEDITECH, we work to meet or exceed all industry-standard security best practices in our corporate ...
March 2, 2022
Privileged access management helps mitigate insider threats before they happen
Although there is much to be optimistic about in 2022, the steep rise in healthcare security breaches remains unrelenting. In fact, insider threats increased by 47% in two years, and the bad news doesn’t stop there. Research shows that a whopping 80% of breaches involve privileged credentials. What ...
August 24, 2021
Why identity governance and administration matters in healthcare
With the continued threats from inside and outside their organizations, healthcare professionals have realized the need for robust identity governance and administration (IGA) policies.
November 10, 2020
Protecting against the latest threats to patient data
On October 28, three federal agencies issued an alert that healthcare organizations face “an increased and imminent cybercrime threat,” including ransomware attacks, data theft, and medical service disruptions.
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August 13, 2020
The scourge of ransomware: Phones, wallets, and the vulnerability paradox
In reflecting on how much we rely on data, it’s possible to say that we have become physical representations of it; people, companies and industries can be reconstructed as ever-expanding archives of information. Putting trust in the digitized, invisible realm of data can have unintended ...
July 21, 2020
5 blogs on why the sky’s the limit with cloud technology
One of the most important topics in health IT today, cloud technology is being used to securely provide greater access to patient data, facilitate interoperability, and enhance scalability. I recently discussed MEDITECH’s journey to the cloud as part of Empower Caregivers, one of Google Cloud’s new ...
April 30, 2020
Mitigating risk and managing response to COVID-19
A version of this post originally appeared on the Forward Advantage website. COVID-19 has created unprecedented challenges for everyone, especially the healthcare industry. Whereas other industries can shut down or go fully remote, hospitals must stay open even in the direst circumstances. However, ...
December 12, 2019
Helping organizations focus on care, not IT: Discussing MEDITECH’s cloud journey
When we consider the many great technological advances in the last few years, one of the most profound has been the rise of the cloud for on-demand data storage and universal access. In the truest sense of the term, cloud computing has been a disruptor for many sectors of the tech industry, ...
August 6, 2019
5 blogs to improve your cybersecurity strategy
With the recent hacking and security breaches in the news, cybersecurity is back at the top of the news — but for healthcare executives and IT managers, we know that keeping patient data safe is an ongoing concern.