How Can Medical Practices Protect Patient Data From AI-Powered Scams Medical practices can protect patient data from AI-powered scams with four things: stronger email filtering, identity protection that flags unusual logins, multi-factor authentication on every account, and a team habit of checking unexpected requests by phone. Health IT has rolled…
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Cyber Attacks on Healthcare: Why Smaller Practices Are Next Non-hospital healthcare providers are the growing target for cyber attacks. The Australian Signals Directorate’s Cyber Security Centre found that malicious actors succeeded in 95% of healthcare sector incidents it responded to in FY2024–25, compared to just under 52% across all sectors…
MFA for Healthcare: Passwords, Medical Practices, and Patient Data Risk It’s not your software that’s putting patients at risk. It’s your passwords. Most healthcare data is not lost to anything sophisticated. It is lost because a password ended up somewhere it shouldn’t have. That is the uncomfortable, ordinary truth behind most…
RACGP Gave AI Its Own Criterion. For the First Time in 30 Years. On 26 August 2026, the RACGP released the 6th edition of the Standards for General Practices, its first update since the 5th edition landed in October 2017, and the biggest rewrite in the thirty years since the…
Mailbox Security At Health IT we are Focused on Security. We do everything we can to protect you, your reputation, your technology infrastructure, and your patient’s privacy from day one. We protect your network perimeter with a managed modern firewall. We protect your computers with our layered Security Stack. While this…
Cybersecurity is a process: a guide for Australian GP practices In our last blog, we asked a simple question: is your practice ready for a real threat? If that piece left you with a few uncomfortable pauses, this is where we pick up the thread. Because knowing you are a target is…
Healthcare is Australia’s most targeted sector for data breaches. Is your practice ready?According to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), the health sector has held the top position for reported data breaches in Australia for several years running, accounting for 20% of all notifications in the second half…
Backups and Disaster Recovery Health IT Backups are designed to meet standards. The RACGP Accreditation Standard v5 – this is the standard Australian General Practice accredits to. The Essential Eight – published by the Australian Government, these are recommended mitigation strategies against cyber security threats.Health IT’s standard backup products have been designed…
Microsoft Cloud BackupsCentralise your data into the Microsoft system and back it up multiple times a day.Back up ExchangeAutomatically back up Exchange mailboxes including email, contacts, and calendars up to six times a day.Back up SharePoint and OneDriveProtect SharePoint sites and permissions, including custom and sub-libraries, as well as OneDrive…
Technical Support for Australian Medical Practices What makes technical support from Health IT different? Just like you want a highly trained doctor looking after your health or a skilled surgeon operating on you, you want a highly experienced team of professionals looking after your IT, ensuring it is fit for…