How Do You Sustain the Management of Risk in Healthcare? https://lnkd.in/g8uCuxNZ Healthcare cybersecurity is often approached, assessed, analyzed, and managed from a functional perspective. In the world of interoperability and complexity of the digital health ecosystem, measuring security measures and costs aren’t enough because nothing tied to cyber is ever finished. As threats have evolved and expanded, digital health has followed. But for many entities that find themselves in the have-nots of healthcare in terms of resources, effective cybersecurity defenses and policies have not moved as quickly. The reality is that something must change, and it absolutely must start with leadership, then permeate through the entire workforce. In First Health's most recent white paper, "Cyber Resilient Digital Health: It’s Not Just About Security Anymore" EVP David Finn, outlines direct examples of the rise in patient safety impacts from healthcare cyberattacks and how healthcare leaders can move forward with cyber resilient digital health. For more on how First Health's Cybersecurity Performance Improvement Services, visit https://lnkd.in/gRrt4RK or contact First Health's Digital Health Experts at sales@firsthealthadvisory.com. #Cybersecurity #CyberResilience #HealthcareLeadership #HTM #HICP #HHS #NIST #HIPAA #Biomed #VulnerabilityManagement #HealthcareIT #HealthcareSecurity #CyberRiskManagement #DataSecurity #DigitalHealth #CyberRisk #IoMT #AssetManagement #RiskManagement #MFA #MultiFactorAuthentication #Hospital #Healthcare #HealthcareInnovation #MedicalDevices
First Health Advisory
Information Technology & Services
Scottsdale, AZ 13,291 followers
Advancing Secure & Efficient Healthcare
About us
First Health is a digital health risk assurance leader, protecting vital interests and accelerating efficiency from the board room to the operating room. Our multidisciplinary expertise informs architectural design and delivery, enabling digital health innovation while safeguarding your patients, clients, operations, and finances. First Health’s passion in understanding sector requirements and the healthcare ecosystem make us uniquely qualified as trusted consultants and strategic advisors. Through our leadership’s proven experience in cybersecurity, digital health, risk management, and shared governance, we provide unmatched digital health acumen and risk assurance support to our healthcare clients. Our solutions portfolio assures performance, availability, integrity, privacy, compliance, and resilience for every facet of your digital health needs. First Health is committed to supporting entities across the healthcare industry with improving their cyber resiliency and creating meaningful digital transformation with patient safety as moral and business imperative.
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External link for First Health Advisory
- Industry
- Information Technology & Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Scottsdale, AZ
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2005
- Specialties
- cybersecurity, Cyber Healthcare IT, Healthcare Security, asset management, risk management services, cyber governance, digital transformation, EHR optimization, Third-Party Risk, and Vendor Management
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6501 E Greenway Pkwy Ste 103-479
Scottsdale, AZ 85254, US
Employees at First Health Advisory
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First Health CEO Carter Groome Addresses Healthcare Mega-Breaches on Health Stealth Radio: https://lnkd.in/gg_Whudw Cybersecurity and Privacy are increasingly complicated practices within the health sector, not only from a technology perspective as innovation continues to prompt progress, but also regarding the manual human responses necessary. Healthcare entities hesitate to share their experiences with cybersecurity attacks and burnout is a major issue as CISOs and IT team members take the blame for knowledge gaps in the field. Meanwhile, ransomware payments increase as costs inflate. In the recent Health Stealth podcast by Healthcare Now Radio, CEO Carter Groome, MBA, CHISL, CDH-E addresses these issues as well as the 2024 healthcare mega-breaches and their policy implications. For more Cyber Resilient Digital Health insights from First Health leadership visit https://lnkd.in/gg_Whudw or contact us at sales@firsthealthadvisory.com. #HealthcareSecurity #IoMT #OT #MedicalDevice #MedicalTechnology #HIPAA #Compliance #PatientSafety #DigitalHealth #HospitalLeadership #HospitalManagement #CIO #CISO #HIPAA #RiskManagement #Ransomware #DigitalHealth #HealthcareIT #HealthcareCybersecurity #CybersecurityisPatientSafety #PatientOutcomes
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Healthcare Bounces Back from CrowdStrike IT Outage: https://lnkd.in/g4yA3qdT HealthLeaders Media recently released an update on the Crowdstrike outage which affected an estimated 8.5 million Microsoft devices. Of these devices, more than 1/10 are found in healthcare digital systems. First Health Advisory CSO Toby Gouker, PhD, CHISL, GSLC, CISM, CPEM notes, “while the fix to the problem only takes a matter of minutes, each machine running an impacted windows operating system has to be physically touched by a qualified individual. There is no centralized patch/fix that can be pushed out on the network." Outages of this nature highlight the health sector’s need for appropriate and quick action to patch management needs in the event of an incident, cyber-related or otherwise. For more on First Health Advisory's Centralized Patch Management Services visit https://lnkd.in/gYbwqgjR or contact sales@firsthealthadvisory.com #CyberRisk #PatchManagement #VulnerabilityManagement #CyberDefense #RiskManagement #Ransomware #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #InnovationinHealthcare #TheFutureofHealthcare #HTM #HealthTech #IoMT #Medical #PatientSafety #HealthcareLeadership #HealthcareConsulting #HealthcareTrends David Finn
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How Much Risk Are You Willing to Accept? Centralized Patch Management Offers Resilient Digital Health Governance — https://lnkd.in/gYbwqgjR Most healthcare entities have learned to accept a certain amount of risk with their assets and medical devices due to the inventory and visibility challenges caused by the complexity and scope of the digital health environment. As a result, it's likely provider networks are blindly accepting risk: the FBI previously estimated 53% of hospitals' medical devices, IoMT, and IoT devices have known critical vulnerabilities. Our first-in-kind Centralized Patch Management program empowers clients with proactive medical device security that effectively protects patient safety and improve s cyber resilience. Our clients report major improvements in vendor engagement and proactive security measures, as well as satisfaction with monthly reports on success measures and patching recommendations, staff security tool training, patch validation, risk reduction, operational continuity & efficiency, and quality of patient care. For more on First Health Advisory's Centralized Patch Management Services visit https://lnkd.in/gYbwqgjR or contact sales@firsthealthadvisory.com #CyberRisk #PatchManagement #VulnerabilityManagement #CyberDefense #RiskManagement #Ransomware #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #InnovationinHealthcare #TheFutureofHealthcare #HTM #HealthTech #IoMT #Medical #PatientSafety #HealthcareLeadership #HealthcareConsulting #HealthcareTrends
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Global IT Outage Exposes Health Sector's Tech Vulnerabilities, Again https://lnkd.in/eaGe9sai First Health CSO Toby Gouker is featured among leading tech leaders, discussing the healthcare-specific impacts of the CrowdStrike outage. Many health systems are back online, but the outage wreaked havoc on procedures and billing for the majority of provider entities throughout the weekend. As noted in the article, the Friday incident could be a harbinger for future threats and disruptions to medical facilities. These types of technology disruptions impact patient care and quality due to workflow challenges and difficulties in operating without mission critical systems. But threat actors also use service disruptions to prey on the chaos. For more on how First Health's Cybersecurity Performance Improvement Services, visit https://lnkd.in/gRrt4RK or contact First Health's Digital Health Experts at sales@firsthealthadvisory.com. #Cybersecurity #CyberResilientDigitalHealth #CyberResilience #HealthcareLeadership #HTM #HICP #HHS #NIST #HIPAA #VulnerabilityManagement #HealthcareIT #HealthcareSecurity #CyberRiskManagement #DataSecurity #DigitalHealth #CyberRisk #IoMT #AssetManagement #RiskManagement #MFA #MultiFactorAuthentication #Hospital #Healthcare #HealthcareInnovation #MedicalDevices
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Hospitals Report Canceled Appointments, Care Disruptions Amid Global IT Outage https://lnkd.in/ekH9upNM The Washington Post spoke with First Health CEO Carter Groome, MBA, CHISL, CDH-E on the disruptions health care delivery organizations reported amid the CrowdStrike IT incident, noting that global hospitals and health systems were (and still are) facing technology issues and delaying some procedures. On Friday Carter shared that "Just about every major health system in the world is using some level of Microsoft product, and they’re getting that blue screen of death." The massive cyberattacks seen earlier this year with Change Health and Ascension reaffirmed that these types of technology disruptions impact patient care and quality due to workflow challenges and difficulties in operating without mission critical systems. For some providers, those technology issues resulted in outpatient clinic closures - for the sake of care quality and patient safety. For more on how First Health's Cybersecurity Performance Improvement Services, visit https://lnkd.in/gRrt4RK or contact First Health's Digital Health Experts at sales@firsthealthadvisory.com. #Cybersecurity #CyberResilientDigitalHealth #CyberResilience #HealthcareLeadership #HTM #HICP #HHS #NIST #HIPAA #VulnerabilityManagement #HealthcareIT #HealthcareSecurity #CyberRiskManagement #DataSecurity #DigitalHealth #CyberRisk #IoMT #AssetManagement #RiskManagement #MFA #MultiFactorAuthentication #Hospital #Healthcare #HealthcareInnovation #MedicalDevices
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Compliance Does Not Equal Cyber Resilient Digital Health: https://lnkd.in/gTxpS89H Check-the-box compliance may keep healthcare entities from paying HIPAA fines. However, it's not an accurate indicator of cyber performance. While standard security measures may be met, additional measures are necessary to ensure risk mitigation against the ongoing changes of the threat landscape. Protective measures must support effective and efficient digital health cyber resiliency. Cyber resiliency goes beyond compliance by assessing specific risks to the healthcare environment to ensure adoption of effective and efficient cybersecurity measures. These tactics ensure true continuous management of the health environment's cybersecurity performance. In First Health's most recent white paper, "Cyber Resilient Digital Health: It’s Not Just About Security Anymore" EVP David Finn, outlines how cybersecurity improvements can positively impact healthcare operations and how healthcare leaders can move forward with cyber resilient digital health. For more on how First Health's Cybersecurity Performance Improvement Services, visit https://lnkd.in/gRrt4RK or contact First Health's Digital Health Experts at sales@firsthealthadvisory.com. #Cybersecurity #CyberResilience #HealthcareLeadership #HTM #HICP #HHS #NIST #HIPAA #Biomed #VulnerabilityManagement #HealthcareIT #HealthcareSecurity #CyberRiskManagement #DataSecurity #DigitalHealth #CyberRisk #IoMT #AssetManagement #RiskManagement #MFA #MultiFactorAuthentication #Hospital #Healthcare #HealthcareInnovation #MedicalDevices
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Hospitals Facing Care Disruptions Amid Global Tech Outage: https://lnkd.in/eANXWgUH First Health CSO Toby Gouker, PhD, CHISL, GSLC, CISM, CPEM tells the The Baltimore Sun that hospitals across the globe are facing a host of care disruptions and patient safety concerns as over a dozen support vendors are down due to the CrowdStrike incident. Hospitals and health systems are reporting issues with applications used for care delivery, including systems that store electronic health records and X-rays, and medication management software. As seen with the weeks-long outages of Change Health and Ascension earlier this year, technology disruptions impact patient care and quality due to workflow challenges and difficulties in operating without mission critical systems. As Toby told The Sun, Friday’s outages caused many hospitals to go back to pen and paper to handle some work as part of their downtime procedures. Today's outage is “dramatically different” because of its widespread nature. It could be days, if not weeks, before systems are back to normal operations. For more on how First Health's Cybersecurity Performance Improvement Services, visit https://lnkd.in/gRrt4RK or contact First Health's Digital Health Experts at sales@firsthealthadvisory.com. #Cybersecurity #CyberResilience #HealthcareLeadership #HTM #HICP #HHS #NIST #HIPAA #VulnerabilityManagement #HealthcareIT #HealthcareSecurity #CyberRiskManagement #DataSecurity #DigitalHealth #CyberRisk #IoMT #AssetManagement #RiskManagement #MFA #MultiFactorAuthentication #Hospital #Healthcare #HealthcareInnovation #MedicalDevices
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Samantha Ng, congratulations on being First Health’s Employee of the Quarter! It’s with great joy that we present you with this award. For over 8 years, you have served as an invaluable part of the First Health team. Not only have you found many talented and experienced individuals who are passionate about healthcare cybersecurity to join our growing community, you have created opportunities for and unforgettable first impressions amongst your colleagues and peers. We are proud to have you as the first point of contact during the recruiting process for many of our associates. #employeerecognition #recruitment #recruiting #hiring #cybersecurity
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Optimize Your Cyber Resilience with Proven Metrics & Expert Recommendations: https://lnkd.in/ewP2-_Ja Under the current threat landscape, large health networks must go beyond basic cybersecurity measures to effectively protect critical care and healthcare operations for true cyber resilient digital health. First Health supports clients with taking decisive steps to align with the HHS Enhanced Cybersecurity Performance Goal (CPGs) through recommendations tailored to the environment, assets, and systems requirements. Our health and public health sector cyber leaders have first-hand experience in advanced privacy & security implementation, including Asset Inventory & Management, Network Segmentation, and Incident Planning and Preparedness. For more on First Health's CPGs, HICP 405(d), & NIST CSF Alignment Services for visit https://lnkd.in/ewP2-_Ja or contact our cyber resilience experts at info@firsthealthadvisory.com. #CISO #CIO #CSO #CTO #SecurityLeaders #HealthcareIT #HealthcareSecurity #HTM #HIPAA #Compliance #MedTech #BioMed #Hospitals #Healthcare #HealthTech # #MedicalSecurity #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #HealthTech #CyberDefense #CyberRisk
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