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Top cybersecurity priorities for healthcare, 8 must-have digital technologies for health systems in '25 + more · Becker’s Healthcare Digital Health + Health IT

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  This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
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  Health Podcast.
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  Here's your daily industry news briefing for today,
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  January 6th.
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  1st, in 2025,
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  health system IT and digital leaders plan to
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  focus on the common data in cybersecurity
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  and the novel creative voice AI and inpatient
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  digital highways.
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  Here are the digital technologies health systems won't
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  be able to go without in 2025,
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  c suite leaders told Becker's.
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  1st is a quick way to value innovations.
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  2 is AI and robotic process automation for
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  patient access.
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  3 is data.
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  4 is inpatient digital highways.
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  5 is low cost wearables embedded with AI
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  and machine learning.
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  6 is robust cybersecurity
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  infrastructure.
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  7 is technology to improve throughput and capacity.
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  And 8 is voice AI.
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  2nd,
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  Brentwood, Tennessee based Arden Health plans to integrate
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  18 urgent care clinics recently acquired from NextCare
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  Urgent Care into its Epic EHR.
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  The acquisition, finalized January 3rd, includes 6 clinics
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  in New Mexico and 12 in Oklahoma.
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  An Ardent spokesperson told Becker's the clinics will
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  be integrated into the health system's Epic EHR
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  as part of the onboarding process with a
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  transition expected to be completed by summer.
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  Ardent Health first committed to transitioning to the
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  Epic EHR platform in 2016.
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  3rd, healthcare organizations are ramping up their cybersecurity
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  defenses with a growing focus on third party
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  risk management,
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  network security, and proactive infrastructure improvements, a January
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  2nd report from Kloss found.
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  Between January October, Kloss interviewed 70 healthcare organizations
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  to explore their cybersecurity priorities,
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  challenges, vendor partnerships,
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  and perspectives on AI's role in strengthening cybersecurity
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  efforts.
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  Respondents outlined their top cybersecurity investment priorities, which
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  include third party and external entity risk management,
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  prevention,
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  preparedness,
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  governance policies and regulation,
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  identity and access management,
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  incident preparedness,
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  AI,
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  improved internal cybersecurity culture, infrastructure,
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  data loss protection, email security, endpoint security,
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  ongoing monitoring and detection,
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  as well as other cybersecurity improvements that were
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  not listed in the report.
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  According to the report,
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  cybersecurity priorities differ based on the size of
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  the organization.
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  Larger health care organizations,
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  especially those with more than 500 beds, often
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  focus on managing
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  managing third party risk. In contrast, smaller organizations
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  are more likely to invest in AI to
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  boost efficiency.
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