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Healthcare is the #1 target for cybercriminals today, which means your team faces unprecedented challenges in protecting your patients’ data while delivering critical services. In this new webinar, you can learn how an integrated, layered, and scalable cyber-aware approach to IT support for healthcare can help you prevent and recover from potential cyber-attacks.
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Critical Aspects of IT Support for Healthcare
Considering the complexity of the healthcare industry, it is not surprising that its IT requirements are also complex. This webinar covers each aspect of necessary cybersecurity and explains how managed IT services for healthcare can help alleviate these issues.
Section 1: Beyond Protection & Detection
Most healthcare organizations have too many tools and not enough integration. This leads to data silos, resulting in alert fatigue due to excessive false positives from cyber alerts.
- Start from the beginning of the section (3:20)
- Tip: How to overcome alert fatigue & data silos (3:45)
- The real problem with invisible data (3:57)
- Why most healthcare breaches are discovered too late (4:14)
Section 2: The Talent Gap Reality
There aren’t enough skilled individuals offering managed IT services for healthcare because the need outpaces the supply. Of course, this is true across all industries, but it is particularly true in the medical sector.
- Start from the beginning of this section (4:34)
- Why is it so hard to find healthcare IT professionals? (4:46)
- Why rural healthcare facilities face more challenges than urban ones (5:00)
- Why healthcare IT professionals quit (5:18)
- Tip: How to overcome these issues (5:36)
Section 3: The Evolving Healthcare Threat Landscape
Many healthcare facilities are still running legacy infrastructures, which have many blind spots. These are magnets for cyber-attacks because you can’t defend what you can’t see.
- Start from the beginning of this section (5:56)
- The new, insidious ransomware threat to healthcare (6:03)
- The #1 way hackers get into your system (6:24)
- Tip: How to secure your main attack points (7:02)
- Why healthcare facilities are specifically at risk (7:14)
Section 4: IT Infrastructure Modernization
To protect at scale, any system providing IT support for healthcare will require you to modernize how your staff accesses the system. Fortunately, you have great options to build your cybersecurity stance over time.
- Start from the beginning of this section (7:36)
- How Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) improves access control (7:44)
- Tip: Where to start with modernization (8:03)
- The benefits of using hosted servers for your facility (8:24)
Section 5: HIPAA Compliance Simplified
HIPAA compliance doesn’t have to be overwhelming. In fact, with the right tools and workflows, you can automate key requirements. The experts at SWK Technologies have established numerous such automations, ensuring that we’ll handle your setup correctly from the outset.
- Start from the beginning of this section (8:53)
- Tip: How to simplify your HIPAA risk assessments (9:09)
- Tip: Make sure you have these capabilities in your IT toolsets (9:34)
- One practical and proven way to demonstrate compliance with confidence (9:54)
Section 6: Business Continuity Readiness
Facts show that the healthcare industry is more targeted by cybercriminals than any other industry today. This means your facility can’t solely focus on prevention; you must also focus on cyber-attack recovery. That’s where Business Continuity comes in.
- Start from the beginning of this section (10:18)
- The importance of off-site backups (10:32)
- Tip: How to reveal gaps in your response plan before an incident happens (10:40)
Section 7: Pulling It All Together
Your team needs tools and in-depth training to succeed with healthcare cybersecurity measures in today’s risk climate. Practical, repeated training with crystal-clear processes will help your team act decisively in high-pressure situations.
- Start from the beginning of this section (11:05)
- What is a layered approach to cybersecurity? (11:23)
- Tip: Why it matters to work with a healthcare-specific IT provider (11:44)
- What are the 5 core areas of cybersecurity, and how can you use them? (11:53)
Managed IT Services for Healthcare: The SWK Advantage
SWK Technologies brings together everything your healthcare facility needs to maintain both cybersecurity and HIPAA compliance. Our team members are fully trained to be HIPAA-compliant[HB1] [JS2] , and we offer a wide range of services and solutions to secure various clinical environments around the clock.
- Start from the beginning of this section (12:21)
- Go in-depth: What are the top 5 healthcare IT problems? (13:05)
Q&A
If you are curious to learn more about managed IT services for healthcare or you want to find out how to start building your security, please check out the in-depth answers to the following questions.
- Would you be able to work with an existing IT staff? (16:45)
- What do you see organizations needing the most help with? (17:40)
- Where should a facility start when evaluating cybersecurity? (19:09)
Extend Your Learning
We hope you learned a great deal from this webinar and now understand your options when it comes to IT support for healthcare. If you would like more information about your options or what others in your field have been doing to stay cyber-secure, we encourage you to request one-on-one assistance from our friendly healthcare cybersecurity experts. We’ve been providing managed IT services for decades, and we’re happy to share what we’ve learned over the years.
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