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Adopting AI in Healthcare: Who Needs to be Involved
The decision to adopt AI for use in clinical settings and enterprise business systems in healthcare should involve a wide range of constituents. A variety of departments and functions, from the board of directors to all the way down to line workers, will need to give input, author policies, write procedures, and be involved in…
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Understanding Cyber Risk Quantification: A Game Changer for Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations
Cybersecurity is obviously a critical concern for hospitals and healthcare organizations. Cybersecurity and HIPAA compliance are typically managed with a biannual or yearly audit, which then generates items to be remediated to bring the organization into compliance. As cyber threats become more sophisticated, traditional methods of assessing and managing these risks are proving inadequate. This is evident in the…
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Rigorous Change Management and Vendor Management in Healthcare
In light of recent outages, let’s go back to basics and reexamine best practices for change management and vendor management in healthcare. Healthcare Change Management Discussion An appropriate change management program is one of the pillars of maintaining a robust, resilient, and secure IT environment in healthcare. This program should be governed by a team of…
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Automating Risk Management and Cybersecurity Compliance in Healthcare
For the last couple of newsletters, I have been writing from a fairly general level as introductions to this topic. In this newsletter, we attempt to get down to some technical details and examples of why automating your risk management and compliance is so important. We’ll even note how we are seeing AI being used…
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Keeping AI Applications Honest
Caution! This content was not written by AI, an actual human being wrote this. How do we ensure that AI is set up appropriately and behaving responsibly in our healthcare organizations? Typically, systems, devices, and applications send data to logs; traditionally, that data is accumulated and reported monthly. Errors are corrected, abuses addressed, and problems fixed, but…