The cost of a data breach is highest for organizations in the healthcare industry, with the average cost of a breach at $9.77 million in 2024, according to IBM’s latest Cost of a Data Breach report. Phishing and stolen or compromised credentials were the two most common attack vectors this year.
This aligns with a finding from Verizon’s 2023 Data...
There are many moving parts in a healthcare environment, whether at a large organization with facilities in multiple states or a small community health center in a rural area. A single health system could have many teams that require access to its network to complete important tasks, from third-party vendors that provide food or laundry services to temporary staff...
A key concern for IT and security leaders is user identity and access control. Identity is a prime target for attackers who want to gain unauthorized system access and carry out malicious acts. In healthcare, identity management has a complex lifecycle that makes it challenging to secure. When healthcare organizations hire or let go of staff, nurses, contractors and...
Staff shortages aren’t new in senior care. While they were exacerbated by the pandemic, the staffing crisis started well before 2020. According to a LeadingAge poll from 2022, 93% of nursing home providers and 80% of assisted living providers reported severe or significant workforce shortages.
At a LeadingAge Annual Meeting session in Nashville, Tenn., this week, Bill Charnetski, executive vice...
Data can provide senior living and acute-care organizations with the information they need to improve care, reduce costs and retain staff and residents. Achieving data maturity is an important step toward using artificial intelligence to improve efficiency across the organization.
However, many organizations haven’t yet begun to prepare staff or data for the application of analytics tools.
At the LeadingAge Annual...
Innovation isn’t something that’s just nice to have, it’s a critical part of healthcare success. And that includes the senior living and post-acute care space. If organizations refuse to evolve or make investments toward innovation, they’re likely to be left behind.
Today’s older adults are more tech-savvy than ever. Their expectations are changing when considering moving to a senior living...
As cybersecurity attacks become more sophisticated and natural disasters grow in severity and frequency, healthcare organizations need a more refined approach to resilience. This is a multifaceted effort to mitigate health system downtime and ensure that people, processes and technologies can operate when an incident happens.
“Corporate resilience is a sense of preparedness to be able to anticipate and respond...
Medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. after heart disease and cancer. Medical harm affects 1 in 4 hospitalized patients today, and the errors that lead to harm are usually the result of system or process failures, not individual healthcare workers’ practices.
Among the systemic issues that contribute to medical harm is an excess of...
