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Intro to Cybersecurity in Healthcare (1 of 2),Plain & Simple
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Intro to Cybersecurity in Healthcare (1 of 2),Plain & Simple

Introduction to Fundamental Cyber Security Issues in Healthcare IT for those who are not IT professionals
Created byThomas Giordano
Last updated 5/2026
English
English [Auto],Japanese [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • The fundamental concepts behind Cyber Security
  • How our healthcare systems are breached.
  • The impact of Cyber Security threats on our healthcare systems today
  • How to respond to Cyber threats

Course content

3 sections • 10 lectures • 1h 24m total length

  • Introduction3:25

    Explore the essentials of cybersecurity in healthcare, focusing on access control, authentication, phishing, malware, and ransomware through real cases like the Boston Children's Hospital incident.

  • Overview of Cyber Security11:37

    Protect electronic health care information by examining cyber threats, rising data breaches, attacker motives, and the role of ransomware and legacy systems.

  • Authenticating Mechanisms5:05

    Explore authentication mechanisms that verify who you are using biometrics, tokens, and passwords, and compare three categories—something you are, something you have, and something you know.

  • Something You Know: Passwords4:55

    Explore how passwords work in healthcare cybersecurity, why longer, more complex combinations slow hackers, and the limits of password security illustrated by real-world risks like a Ring camera.

  • Something You Own: FOB, MFA18:46

    Explore how something you own, such as fobs, RFID cards, and badges, forms the core of authentication in healthcare, and how two-factor and multi-factor authentication strengthen access control through encryption.

  • Something You Are: Biometrics15:42

    Explore biometric identification in health care security, including handwriting signatures, voice recognition, face recognition with depth sensing, fingerprint, iris, and DNA, and compare convenience and accuracy for access control.

  • Authenticating Access: FIDO14:10

    Explore how healthcare cybersecurity hinges on authenticating access and verifying identities across multiple databases. Learn how the FIDO standard enables passwordless, interoperable authentication for emergency responders and sensitive systems.

  • Phishing & Spam9:58

    Phishing and its forms: spear phishing, whaling, smishing, and voice phishing show how attackers target audiences with urgent messages to lure clicks and breach data.

Requirements

  • There are no course requirements or prerequisites. This course in a foundation course.

Description

This is the 1st of 2 courses on Cybersecurity in Healthcare

WHY IS THIS COURSE IMPORTANT?

Breaches of Healthcare IT systems are becoming more and more commonplace. Healthcare organizations continually face cyber threats, which put patient privacy and safety at risk. These threats also have significant impact on business continuity and financial health of all healthcare organizations.

Issues relating to Healthcare IT systems and its security were once the sole domain of engineers in the IT department. This is no longer true. Understanding security issues and protecting against them is job #1 for all healthcare workers from the top to the bottom of the healthcare system.

Advances in technology have made the whole cybersecurity issue pretty complicated to understand, especially for the average healthcare worker. This class on cybersecurity is focused on the non healthcare professional who is just trying to get a familiarization on what cybersecurity is and how they can protect themselves, their organizations and their patients from harm.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE?

In this, the 1st in a 2 part series of courses, you will learn:

  • What is Cyber Security?

  • The Nature of the Problem

  • Controlling Access

    • Something You Know (Passwords)

    • Something You Have (FOB)

    • Something You Are (Biometrics)

  • Authenticating Access

  • Phishing / Spam

This course includes:

  • Video lectures walking you through the various aspects of cybersecurity

  • Quiz to test your retention

  • Significant number of resources to do a deeper dive into his topic.

WHO IS THE IDEAL STUDENT FOR THIS COURSE?

You will learn a lot from this course if you are

  • Thinking about choosing healthcare as a career

  • Looking to advance your career in healthcare

  • Looking to expand your knowledge of healthcare to better perform your current job and better understand how it fits into the ecosystem of patient care and better serve those in need

  • Curious about everything and want to learn more about healthcare just for the sake of expanding your knowledge base.

WHAT IS YOUR TEACHING STYLE?

My teaching style is a very pragmatic one. I assume you know nothing about this topic and start with the foundation and build from there. Some of these concepts could be challenging, so I sprinkle in as many examples as I can, both non healthcare and healthcare, to assure full understanding of the topic. This is why I have appended "Plain and Simple" to all my courses.

WHY ARE YOU QUALIFIED TO TEACH THIS COURSE?

I spent 35 years in the designing and launching of medical imaging products and services. My career evolved from leading engineering teams, to becoming VP Marketing and then to president of a Healthcare IT firm. It is also based on 15 years of university teaching.

Who this course is for:

  • Those currently in a healthcare position, wanting to learn more about Healthcare Information Systems and Cyber Security.
  • Those considering a career change and wanting to learn more about Healthcare IT.
  • Those entering the healthcare industry and considering a career in Healthcare IT
  • The eternally curious

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