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Recovery, downtime and disruption from IT outages cost some independent and senior care providers "tens of thousands of dollars per minute," lower staff morale and pose patient safety concerns, says healthcare IT security expert Danielle Morrison.

Jackie Mattingly of Clearwater advises small- to medium-sized hospitals to improve accountability and streamline technical complexities now to improve their cybersecurity postures in this look at what rural providers face.

Rural IT experts will share cost effective strategies for handling limited resources, staffing and infrastructure needs and discuss regional collaboration at HIMSS26, says Jim Roeder, CIO and VP of IT for Lakewood Health in Staples, Minn.

The chief information officer of the 25-bed New Mexico nonprofit discusses plan for some new clinical automation tools. He also describes how he's using AI to help with network defense, and how that's enabling gains in other areas.

For the year ahead, we'll be watching for precision medicine advances, cybersecurity challenges, policy shifts and, of course, continued evolution of AI-enabled care delivery, say the editors of the HIMSS Media brands.

PET Imaging Institute processes 4,200 pages of protected documents daily, and in 10 years, has had zero breaches, says Barrett Loveless, the company's infrastructure director.

When assessing startups, Leila Taghizadeh of Allianz says she looks past flashy technology to ensure that founders prioritize patient data security, risk management and regulatory compliance.

Trend Micro's Fernando Cardoso recommends cybersecurity best practices for healthcare organizations pursuing AI adoption, including remediating 'shadow AI' and other data blind spots.

Tan Bin Ru, president of Enterprise Digital at ST Engineering, discusses the company's plan to strengthen Dubai hospitals' cybersecurity and data analytics capabilities with the technologies it uses in defence work.

Richard Staynings, professor and cybersecurity strategist, says data management basics are too often lacking, and policy regs still evolving. Whether dealing with automated decision support or adversarial deepfakes, healthcare orgs need both.

HealthEx CEO Dr. Priyanka Agarwal describes how identity verification technology makes it possible for patients to go to TEFCA and get their records, and weighs in on how the industry can rapidly scale Individual Access Services.

Hospitals need better visibility into the various AI-enabled tools coming onto their networks, and the ability to track new traffic patterns, security vulnerabilities and privacy risks, says Richard Staynings, chief security strategist at Cylera.