Privacy & Security

Improving accountability and streamlining technical complexities are key to improving cybersecurity postures now at small- to medium-sized hospitals, says Jackie Mattingly of Clearwater.

While hospitals and health systems continue to face an array of significant challenges, human-centered innovations that pair data with agility are helping improve caregiver experience and patient care, the research firm says. 

Meanwhile, it says third-party vendors are to blame for all but one recent case of IT failures.

Jim Roeder, CIO and VP of IT for Lakewood Health in Staples, Minn., says expert rural IT panelists at HIMSS26 will share cost effective approaches to handling limited resources, staffing and infrastructure needs and discuss regional collaboration.

A transient workforce is a fact of life for many healthcare organizations, which presents unique identity governance challenges across the joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle. Lingering access rights can present a threat to organizations’ cybersecurity, and this is complicated by working within a hybrid technology ecosystem.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how healthcare IT and security leaders can modernize their approach to identity governance and access management for today’s dynamic healthcare workforce with a single, unified IAM platform with native, integrated identity verification, threat protection, and the industry’s most robust and user friendly orchestration engine.

Modernizing an organization’s identity and access management (IAM) with a Verified Trust approach that continuously validates users’ identity even along self-service workflows can help prevent this type of breach.

Emerging threat actors have redefined the attack surface—and are targeting your helpdesk. Through social engineering, impersonation, and MFA fatigue tactics, they’re bypassing perimeter defenses and are using support channels as the first step toward infiltration, lateral movement, and ransomware deployment.

Cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency remain chronic concerns for healthcare organizations, and identity and access management (IAM) is at the heart of many of these challenges.

Healthcare organizations are dealing with a surge in cyber risk as AI-powered attacks, third-party connections and expanding digital ecosystems stretch traditional defenses.