Healthcare workers, patients and visitors should be able to move around a hospital safely. Unfortunately, healthcare workers are facing a rise in workplace violence, including verbal harassment and active-shooter situations.
As healthcare organizations adjust their physical security strategies in response to the changing landscape, they should move toward a more holistic approach to security that would benefit immensely from a...
Digital transformation initiatives are driving many healthcare organizations to implement hybrid cloud architectures for their IT. The cloud has long been a robust option for organizations looking to improve their flexibility and scalability, but new digital capabilities are spurring even greater adoption. In fact, 90 percent of hospitals have adopted a cloud infrastructure according to a recent study by...
Hospitals and clinics have to find the right balance between security and accessibility for their staff and patients. Statistics show workplace violence is on the rise in healthcare settings, and according to IBM’s annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, data breaches cost healthcare organizations nearly $11 million per incident on average in 2023.
“Access control is paramount for securing...
Protecting clinicians, patients and staff requires a 360-degree approach as part of a holistic physical security strategy.
Not only must health systems safeguard physical items such as door locks, proximity cards and medical equipment, they also require protection from threats such as ransomware and malware.
“Physical security and cybersecurity are intricately linked,” explains Jake Stauch, director of product at Verkada, an enterprise...
The healthcare industry is facing challenges including the rising cost of care, staff shortages and an increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape. To address these challenges, health IT leaders are considering collaboration, legislation, governance and new solutions such as generative artificial intelligence tools.
At the CHIME23 Fall Forum, hosted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives in Phoenix, speakers discussed the...
When the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launched its first-ever public service announcement right before October, it urged the public to remember the basics.
The theme of CISA’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign was “Secure Our World,” and it focused on four key areas that any individual, business and even healthcare organization could follow: use strong passwords, turn on multifactor authentication,...
When Darren Viner became the security director at Scottsdale, Ariz.-based HonorHealth this year, he understood that workplace violence was a growing concern in healthcare.
“Healthcare workers are used to dealing with situations where they may have combative patients or family members,” he says. “You have people who are not necessarily in the best of moods. They're in situations that are...
Providers in specialized areas of healthcare were actively using telehealth long before the COVID-19 pandemic. One report found that, by 2018, telehealth was most often used by radiology, psychiatry and cardiology.
Once general practitioners and their patients started to rely on virtual care more widely, its benefits became more apparent. More than 20 percent of adults used telehealth from 2021...
