I don’t possess the requisite wisdom and foresight of someone like Toby Cosgrove, MD and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, who predicts that by the year 2050, there will only be 50 healthcare providers in the United States. Still, when you scan the headlines, you can’t help but see a seemingly unending parade of mergers and acquisitions. Why? For starters, during the 1980s there was an explosion of group benefits...

How long has it been since you read about a breach that started with an employee unwittingly opening a malicious file in an email they thought was legitimate? It likely wasn’t long ago. Phishing is on the rise and cyber criminals use the elusive tactic to extort ransom from businesses, swipe medical data from healthcare organizations and steal money from the bank accounts of hopeful home buyers. Social engineering...

According to a new study conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the number of annual health data breaches increased 70% over the past seven years. That same study noted that 75% of the 132 million breached, lost, or stolen records were a result of a ‘hacking or IT incident.’ There’s no question healthcare organizations are under siege by...