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When it comes to threat detection, AI enables security leaders to do more with less because it can process data quickly and identify anomalies, says Etay Maor, chief security strategist at Cato Networks.

While AI technology shows promise for automating administrative tasks, Julie Frey, vice president of provider product at Wolters Kluwer, recommends caution in deploying AI, particularly generative AI, for clinical use cases.

While decentralizing healthcare data using blockchain can potentially bolster organizations' cybersecurity, Matt Murren, CEO of True North ITG, cautions that quantum computing may one day crack blockchain's ciphers.

Cybercriminals invest heavily into developing new attacks, so Eric Liederman, CEO of CyberSolutionsMD, recommends that healthcare organizations take a proactive security stance and build strong resilience and recovery plans.

Banner Health's "Text the CEO" initiative allowing patients and families to give leaders their feedback in real time has helped improve patient satisfaction, according to senior digital product manager Amy Adashek-Pinn.

The updates are a refresh to put more onus around payers/providers to mature their cybersecurity program, says Ferdinand Hamada, managing director of the healthcare, pharma and life sciences sector at MorganFranklin Cyber.

According to Darren Batara, nursing innovation and informatics manager at Stanford Healthcare, ambient listening can help nurses balance documentation and patient care amid constant interruptions.

Health IT success is achieved by ensuring data is relevant and timely and developing insights that people need and assuring those insights are reaching people, says Ardent Health's chief digital and transformation officer Anika Gardenhire, RN.

Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS, says she believes strong governance and psychology-based training can help healthcare organizations combat social engineering cyberattacks that exploit workers' instinct to help.

Proposed updates to the HIPAA security rule are specific around the required technical controls and present challenges regarding implementation in a timely manner, says Garrett Weber, Akamai Technologies field CTO for enterprise security.