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Posted on Monday November 06, 2017 | security, mobile, hipaa, healthcare it, healthcare, ephi, electronic protected health information
Mobile devices have revolutionized the healthcare industry: They're convenient and significantly improve work efficiency and patients' satisfaction. Yet they also come with risks. Patient data handled by those devices can be leaked. That's why every healthcare provider needs to be extra careful about data security when using mobile devices.
Posted on Monday June 05, 2017 | wannacry, update, security, ransomware, incident response, hipaa, healthcare security, employee awareness, best practices, antivirus
Hospitals and healthcare organizations are usually the first victims of malware attacks. WannaCry ransomware -- malicious software that encrypts files until the victim decides to pay the Bitcoin ransom -- took advantage of this when it hit several healthcare institutions last month. With more malware expected to target the healthcare industry this year, following HIPAA regulations could save your organization.
Posted on Monday May 01, 2017 | url filtering, phi, mdm, hipaa, healthcare, employee training, compliance
Two trends have been rising in popularity in tandem: HIPAA compliance audits and social media. Obviously both of these are far too important to be correlated directly, but they do intersect with each other. Social media tends to push people toward oversharing, and that's definitely something you don't want when hosting regulated patient data.
Posted on Monday January 30, 2017 | hipaa, healthcare, emrs, cyber security, compliance
Even if notable punishments and fines for HIPAA non-compliance have only been doled out over the last 6 years, data privacy regulations have been around for 14. And with each passing year, these rules evolve in ways that make it near impossible to keep up without an expert on hand. As we kick off 2017, we want to review just a few of the most important talking points about HIPAA compliance.
Posted on Monday September 05, 2016 | security, medical data, hipaa, healthcare, emr, data compliance
If your organization hosts data regulated by the US government, you're familiar with the scare tactics used to sell hosting services. But what lurks behind those vague threats of expensive lawsuits and unfair liability burdens? HIPAA is nearly 100 pages long and few providers actually know what it requires. Unfortunately, it took a massive breach of healthcare-record data to give us a clearer picture, but let's take a closer look at what we can glean from the incident.
Posted on Wednesday June 15, 2016 | washington redskins, theft, security, passwords, nfl, hipaa, healthcare, emr
ESPN recently reported that a laptop containing the medical records of thousands of NFL players was stolen from the car of a Washington Redskins' trainer. And while the team released a statement saying no health information protected under HIPAA guidelines was at risk, the incident shows that EMRs are vulnerable no matter the size of your company. That's why you need to have all medical records completely protected no matter where they are being stored.
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