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E-Newsletter • February 2026 |
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Editor's E-Note
It’s well established that health care cybersecurity is essential, but is your organization taking the correct steps to protect data? This month’s exclusive dives into the ins and outs of cybersecurity and highlights some of the biggest risks that health care organizations face.
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AI and Health Care Cybersecurity Risk
By Elizabeth S. Goar
The downside of the transformative impact of AI on the health care landscape is its impact on provider organizations’ cybersecurity risk profiles. Cybercriminals are following in health care’s footsteps and using AI to improve their workflows, eg, automating reconnaissance, crafting more effective phishing messages, and altering attack vectors.
And both sides are honing their weapons: The bad guys can now use AI to alter code in real time to avoid detection, while the good guys are working on entropy-based anomaly detection to flag early stages of ransomware encryption. As a result, cybersecurity is now about pitting adaptive algorithms against adaptive defenses.
“Health care organizations face a convergence of challenges that make AI-driven breaches harder to prevent, including increasingly sophisticated social engineering attacks that are more convincing, faster, and highly targeted,” says Eric O’Neill, founder of Nexasure AI and The Georgetown Group and the former FBI operative who brought down the nation’s first cyber spy, Robert Hanssen.
A recent Censinet survey revealed 92% of health care organizations experienced AI-related cyberattacks in 2024. LevelBlue’s 2025 Spotlight Report found that just 29% of health care leaders surveyed believed their systems were ready for AI-driven threats, despite 41% expecting targeted attacks in the near future.
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Misuse of AI Chatbots Tops Annual List of Health Technology Hazards
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Stanford Healthcare Halves EHR Training Time While Increasing Learning Retention
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Elation Health Teams Up With Anthropic
Anthropic's Claude AI has been integrated into Elation Health's EHR Clinical Insights solution. The tool allows clinicians to get summaries of patient data, such as problem lists, medications, visit notes, labs, and vitals, to prepare for visits. Learn more »
Hospital Cyber Asset Exposure Management
Asimily’s survey report, “The State of Hospitals' Cyber Asset Exposure Management in 2025,” examines the biggest challenges hospital chief information security officers face in securing connected medical devices and equipment. The report recommends that organizations unify visibility across all asset types, prioritize vulnerabilities by device criticality and usage, establish clear ownership and communication channels, reduce data overload with context-aware filtering, and leverage governance, risk, and compliance capabilities to track configuration drift. The full report is available for download. Learn more » |
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