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Ransomware and Healthcare Payers: What Can You Do to Protect Yourself

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Ransomware and Healthcare Payers: What Can You Do to Protect Yourself by Pure Storage Blog For this blog on ransomware and healthcare payers at risk of it, Catherine Sweeney, Senior Account Based Marketing Manager at Pure Storage, spoke with Priscilla Sandberg, Pure Storage’s Senior Strategic Healthcare Alliances Manager.

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Helping Healthcare Organizations Stay Agile and Protect Data

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Helping Healthcare Organizations Stay Agile and Protect Data by Pure Storage Blog Imagine that your healthcare business pays $22 million in cryptocurrency to cybercriminals to recover data and systems encrypted in a ransomware attack that targeted a subsidiary, causing massive disruption across the industry. According to the U.S.

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For Healthcare IT Challenges, Storage Subscriptions Could Be the Cure

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For Healthcare IT Challenges, Storage Subscriptions Could Be the Cure by Pure Storage Blog This year’s Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo theme of “Unleash Possibility” was fitting as all of us in IT collectively rebound from an intense few years and recalibrate for what’s next.

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Cybersecurity in healthcare: How MSPs help safeguard patient data

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Many healthcare organizations can no longer function without relying on electronic health records (EHRs) and other technological advancements in healthcare. EHR and other healthcare tech tools make things faster and more efficient for healthcare providers. And how could they not?

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Jenny Menna: Exploring Cyber Threats to the Insurance and Healthcare Sectors

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The importance of forming a strategy around employee education (11:04 – 12:18).

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HIPAA penalties every healthcare company needs to know about: Fines, charges, and more

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was created to protect sensitive health information from being disclosed without the patients’ consent. In 2017, Memorial Healthcare System, which operates several healthcare facilities throughout South Florida, was ordered to pay $5.5 Criminal charges.

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5 Predictions for Healthcare Data and Technology in 2022

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Data is the lifeblood of healthcare, and yet organizations fall along a spectrum of how effectively they’re managing and using that data. Here are five predictions of how data will transform healthcare this year. . Here are five predictions of how data will transform healthcare this year. .