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A new hospital benchmarking study sheds light on how prepared hospitals are to combat cybersecurity attacks and highlights potential areas of focus, says Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet.  

CIOs employ AI and HIPAA and other best practices to vet third-party risk, says Aaron Miri, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at Baptist Health.

Dr. Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics for the Permanente Medical Group, describes how the shared security governance within the Kaiser Permanente organization helps strengthen its cybersecurity posture.

Lisa Stephenson, chair of the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Committee and CNIO at Houston Methodist, says nurses need to move beyond culling data from the EHR to a bigger picture that includes interoperability and health equity.  

Artificial intelligence software is able to extract valuable information from medical records, says Dr. Tim O'Connell, CEO and founder of Emtelligent.  

DrFirst's AI-driven medication algorithm can read the intent of the prescription renewal request, says CMO Dr. Colin Banas.  

Epic MyChart is used to communicate with patients about clinical research, says Cleveland Clinic's chief research information officer Dr. Lara Jehi, and IT product director for population health Craig Martin.

ComplyAssistant CEO Gerry Blass and University Hospital CISO Frank Sinatra discuss the Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) guide, which aims to prevent threats coming from phishing, ransomware, data loss and attacks against connected medical devices.  

Action as well as access is needed in medical records to move toward digital health transformation and interoperability, says Grace Cordovano, founder of Enlightening Results.

HIMSS validation and robot innovation have given clinicians an additional three hours to spend with patients, say Dr. Wonchul Cha, CMIO and director of the Digital Innovation Center, and Dr. Meong Hi Son, vice director of the Digital Transformation Center.