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How Healthcare Apps Empower Patients to Improve their Condition

June 7, 2017 / GuidesFor Team

As the Association for Talent Development sums it up, patient compliance is the secret to his healing and recovery. Regardless of how good his doctor is or how powerful his … Continue reading How Healthcare Apps Empower Patients to Improve their Condition

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Security Reference Blueprint for Healthcare IT

IT security and network teams at healthcare providers around the world must ensure the utmost patient care, rapidly adopt new technology – EMR, PACS applications, network-connected medical equipment and mobile devices – while enabling safe access to patient data from hospitals, remote clinics, physicians’ offices, business affiliates and a myriad of devices. While doing so, they must also ensure compliance with increasingly stringent regulations that impact patient data and medical equipment – and systematically detect and block a rising volume of threats.

Why Healthcare Organizations Are Facing More Cyber Attacks, and What They Can Do About It

Since 2009, nearly 1,200 data breaches have been reported as being in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, affecting more than 133 million patients. The attackers have stolen medical records, personal information and intellectual property, and the attacks are increasing. Download this white paper and learn why healthcare organizations are being targeted and what can be done to protect the organizations and their patients.

Defeating the Threat Within

As a technology professional, you know that data, network and system failures aren’t your biggest problems. It’s the humans who interact with these systems that cause your biggest headaches. High-risk insider threats – malicious, careless or “negligent” employees – are one of the main causes of data breaches. Most of the time, these are simply ordinary users focusing on getting their job done. They’re not thinking, minute by minute, about protecting the company’s sensitive or confidential information. Whether employees are negligent or malicious, IT security teams (and ultimately, CISOs) are responsible for protecting the organization from breaches and risky behavior. But outdated, traditional security solutions don’t offer enough protection from threats inside organizations. Security professionals need a new playbook for dealing with insider threats

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