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What Should a Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Plan Include?

A rural hospital cybersecurity plan should include seven things: a named owner and current risk analysis, multifactor authentication and account controls, email protection with...

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How Do You Standardize IT Across a Multi-Location Medical Group?

To standardize IT across a multi-location medical group, start by inventorying every site, then define one standard build and roll it out in a set order: identity and logins...

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What Does Anthropic's AI Security Expansion Mean for Hospitals?

Anthropic just opened its most capable vulnerability-hunting AI to far more security teams, and its early partners say it found flaws months or even years faster than they could...

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Internal IT or Managed IT: Which Is Right for Your Company?

Internal IT is the right choice when your company needs someone on site every day who knows your people, your equipment, and your quirks. Managed IT is the right choice when you...

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How Do Recurring Computer Problems Put Patient Safety at Risk?

Recurring computer problems put patient safety at risk by delaying lab results, interrupting medication workflows, and pushing staff into manual workarounds where patient...

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Which Managed IT Services for Healthcare Support EHR and HIPAA?

Managed IT services for healthcare work best when one accountable team owns everything between a clinician and the chart: the workstation, the login, the network, the servers, and...

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How Do You Compare Managed IT Services for Healthcare Data Security?

To compare managed IT services for healthcare data security, look past the feature list and ask each provider to prove four things: who watches your systems after hours, whether...

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How Do Managed IT Services Help Rural Clinics With Compliance?

Managed IT services help rural and specialty clinics with compliance by running the security controls HIPAA expects and documenting that work as it happens. Those controls include...

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What Good Looks Like: A Vendor Risk Management Program for Healthcare Under HIPAA (The CFO Governance View)

What Good Looks Like: A Vendor Risk Management Program for Healthcare Under HIPAA (The CFO Governance View)

The Five Functions a Defensible Healthcare Vendor Risk Program Must Operate Tiering and inventory of all vendors handling ePHI. Due diligence proportional to vendor criticality....

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What Good Looks Like: A Clinical Platform Vendor Governance Program Over a Multi-Year Relationship

What Good Looks Like: A Clinical Platform Vendor Governance Program Over a Multi-Year Relationship

The Six Elements of Defensible Clinical Vendor Governance Selection criteria documented. Contract review substantive. Implementation oversight. Ongoing performance review....

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