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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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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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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 needs to pay cybercriminals tens of millions of dollars to recover data and systems encrypted in a ransomware attack. Investing in security also needs to become a higher priority for many healthcare businesses.

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How Hospitals Use Diagnostic Analytics & AI in Healthcare

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While it’s a data-driven field that’s useful in every industry, there’s arguably no more important application for diagnostic analytics than applying AI in healthcare. The goal of healthcare analytics solutions is to discover the root cause of why something happened the way it did. The Purpose of Diagnostic Analytics in Healthcare.

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The hidden costs of shadow IT: How unsanctioned tech impacts your budget

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In 2013, thieves stole two laptops from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ), the state’s largest healthcare provider. Compliance issues Industries such as healthcare or finance have strict regulations regarding data handling.

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Is Cost Holding You Back?

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But if you’re running older computer systems that don’t have modern safety protocols, for example, your system is exceptionally vulnerable to attacks. Not only is it difficult for the patients whose privacy has been violated, but it also opens up these healthcare providers to a sea of liability.