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The increase holds true even after accounting for patients being sicker and requiring more complex and intensive care.

The clinical workforce must be cyber aware, and the cybersecurity team must become clinically aware, experts say.

Greg Miller, chief growth officer at health IT vendor Lumeon, says that manual methods for coordinating and verifying points in a patient's clinical journey cause provider burnout.  

The value proposition is making sure everyone is using the same process for cyber risk quantification.

Efficiencies introduced in these policies would save physician practices and hospitals more than $15B over a 10-year period, CMS says.

Dr. Dhesi Raja, vice chair of the Board of Advisory at HIMSS APAC, says it is important for the region's hospitals to envision the goal for AI in healthcare and adopt systemic changes enabling population health management.  

Executive vision is required around how to think about the patient journey from start to finish to address chronic issues, says Patty Hayward, a VP at Talkdesk, which worked on the survey.  

Best practices include adopting a zero-trust approach, which means no notion of implied trust, says Anand Oswal of Palo Alto Networks.

Healthcare Finance News looks at the trends of this past year that will continue in 2023 and beyond.

Researchers from Censinet and KLAS Research aim at aligning healthcare cybersecurity collaboration through a new benchmarking study for 2023.