There are 10 technologies emerging in the next five years with the greatest vulnerabilities in terms of cybersecurity, finance, personal health and safety. Two directly impact the health care industry.
Putting off a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement puts sensitive health information at risk of being misused or improperly disclosed. That’s certainly not good, and neither is the steep financial penalty you could incur for overlooking this critical step.
Defending patient privacy means protecting electronic Protected Health Information, or ePHI, from those unauthorized to view such sensitive information. A covered entity must be confident that its users know how to protect themselves from becoming victims of cybercrime, such as phishing schemes.
On March 21, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) began its next phase of audits of covered
We know we have an important job to do in healthcare IT, especially in keeping the greedy little hands of cyber attackers out of the personal files of patients and providers. A recently released report from Critical Infrastructure Technology backs this up.
This month the American Medical Association (AMA) released a list of the nine top issues they believe physicians should watch in the coming year and why, and what the AMA is doing to address the issues. We’re going to look at the two that call out health IT.
The Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act (S. 2425) was passed by both chambers of Congress on Friday, December 18.
There is no better time to make sure you’re using the latest version of Internet Explorer. True to their word, January 12, 2016 is the end of the Microsoft Support Lifecycle on versions of Internet Explorer older than version 11.
The proliferation of Electronic Health Records, patient health portals and the general increase in digital medical information has resulted in an increasing number of patients who bring their medical records to their providers of care, using some form of computer media like a USB drive.
Watch the included video from PrivaPlan President David Ginsberg who answers this very question.
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