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Healthcare Considerations: Addressing Cyber Risk in the Healthcare Industry

by Bryan Smith, Chief Technology Officer, RiskLens 05/10/2023 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Considerations: Addressing Cyber Risk in the Healthcare Industry

In 2020, the Dental Care Alliance (DCA) experienced a significant cyberattack on its systems, which lasted approximately an entire month. This gave the threat actor an extended period to compromise the healthcare organization’s servers and extract the private and confidential information of around one million patients.  This is just another example of how vulnerable the healthcare industry is to cyber criminals looking to exploit security weaknesses. Healthcare organizations are prime targets
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Healthcare Metadata Management: 3 Critical Capabilities to Creating A Unified, Automated Approach

by Amnon Drori, CEO of Octopai 02/01/2021 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Metadata Management: 3 Critical Capabilities to Creating A Unified, Automated Approach

The healthcare industry, like many others, has become a data driven industry collecting data from patients, doctors, labs, and payers that are all crucial to patient healthcare diagnosis and outcome. When it comes to research, data can be useful in creating emerging healthcare technological innovations, pharmaceutical discoveries, as well as other advances in the market but it also is accompanied by strong regulatory compliance, like stringent HIPAA laws, that dictate that this data is kept
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Top 4 Disruptions Healthcare Providers Should Prepare to Address

by Shawn Yates, Director, Product Management, Ontario Systems 07/02/2020 Leave a Comment

Top 4 Disruptions Healthcare Providers Should Prepare to Address

The past few years have been particularly interesting for the healthcare landscape. We’ve seen a surge in telemedicine and retail clinics, increasing use of personal healthcare devices such as watches and fitness trackers, aggressive attempts to dismantle the ACA, the growing influence of private equity investment firms, and massive mergers with disruptive enterprise market entries such as Amazon. As the ground beneath them continues to shift, many providers are venturing into new territory to
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What Therapists Need to Know about Telehealth Technology

by Benjamin E. Caldwell, PsyD 06/12/2020 Leave a Comment

What Therapists Need to Know about Telehealth Technology

Thousands of therapists who never intended to engage in telehealth are now doing exactly that – they are providing services to clients in lockdown using video-enabled platforms. While the technological landscape for psychotherapy is dramatically improved from even a few years ago, therapists rapidly transitioning to online services need to hold a few things in mind. It’s not the same as in-person therapy While online psychotherapy has been shown to be just as effective as in-person care,
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COVID-19’s Impact on Telehealth & HIPAA Regulations

by Matthew Fisher, Partner & Chair at Mirick O’Connell 03/19/2020 Leave a Comment

The declaration of COVID19 as a pandemic and the United States declaring a national emergency to help contain and enhance treatment access have resulted in a number of changes to ease potential regulatory burdens or barriers in healthcare. Like so much happening as a result of the pandemic, the changes have the potential to fundamentally change the healthcare industry not just during the time of the emergency declaration. Of particular note are coordinated announcements from various agencies
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Report: Epic Will Not Pursue Further Integration with Google Cloud

by Jasmine Pennic 01/20/2020 Leave a Comment

CareCloud to Use Google Cloud Healthcare API to Accelerate Interoperability

- Epic account reps have notified their clients that they will not pursue further integration with Google Cloud, citing lack of interest among its healthcare provider customers. - The company plans to focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as cloud providers. Account reps from Epic have started notifying their clients that they will not be pursuing further integration with Google Cloud as a service provider, according to a report from CNBC. CNBC reports that Epic cited lack of
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ECRI Institute: Top 4 Biggest Risks in Ambulatory Care to Watch

by Jasmine Pennic 10/23/2019 Leave a Comment

ECRI Institute: Top 4 Biggest Risks in Ambulatory Care to Watch

- ECRI Institute report reveals diagnostic testing and medication events are the most frequent safety risks patients face in ambulatory care.- Analysis of more than 4,300 adverse events reveals bifurcated healthcare system challenging outcomes.Diagnostic testing and medication events are the most frequent safety risks patients face in ambulatory care, according to new research from ECRI Institute, the nation’s leading independent, non-profit patient safety organization. ECRI Institute’s Deep
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Data Breaches: Moving Security Perimeter Back to Server Level

by Our Thought Leaders 04/25/2016 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices to Protect Patient Data _Cybercrime in Healthcare_Infographic: History of Security Data Breaches in Healthcare

Editor's Note:  Jon Senger is the CTO of Vertiscale . He writes frequently on the on the topic of HIPAA compliance and the role of MSPs in healthcare security.The leading cause of data breach incidents in healthcare facilities is lost or stolen end-user devices, including laptops and tablets. Such breaches have led to six figure fines for HIPAA violations in some cases, and with the stepped up enforcement coming in 2016 promised by the Department of Health and Human Services, we can expect to
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MedStar Cyber Attack Shows Need for HHS to Implement Cybersecurity Law

by Fred Pennic 03/30/2016 Leave a Comment

MedStar

The FBI is investigating a Monday cyber attack by anonymous hackers that forced MedStar Health's 10 hospitals and more than 250 outpatient centers to shut down their computers and email. After the cyber attack was discovered, the provider immediately made the decision to take down all of their systems as a precaution to ensure further security breaches.  The Washington, D.C.-based healthcare system employs more than 30,000 people and treats hundreds of thousands of patients in the Washington
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Infographic: The Rise of HIPAA Violations

by Fred Pennic 11/05/2014 1 Comment

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Infographic created by TrueVault illustrates the rise of HIPAA violations providing a picture of the regulatory landscape along with the type of complaints, breaches and fines that occur due to HIPAA violations.   
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