Security

Best Practices to Secure Patient Data

It’s important for healthcare providers to ensure patient data privacy in order to build lasting and meaningful relationship with their customers. However, it’s not easy to secure health data with the growing concerns in cybersecurity threats today. According to healthcare data breach statistics from 2009 to 2017, 2,181 healthcare data breaches was recorded resulting to

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EHR Printing: Security Concerns Associated with Healthcare Organizations

Digital Transformation in the Healthcare Industry As the “going digital” trend rapidly gains popularity across the corporate world, industries across the board are looking to digital transformation to answer their security, workflow efficiency and productivity problems! The healthcare industry is at the forefront of this shift towards a digital world! With the healthcare industry hosting

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Healthcare Security Awareness Training: Don’t Fear Failure, Learn From It

The past few years has seen an explosion of cyber attack activity in the healthcare industry. But that shouldn’t come as a surprise. Healthcare records are a goldmine for enterprising hackers, and with low security budgets across the industry it’s no wonder that healthcare organizations are considered a soft target. A cursory glance at the industry’s security profile tells us everything

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The Costs, Risks, and Prevention of Information Technology Downtime in Healthcare

 â€œA Netflix outage is annoying, but if you can’t access medical records, it could be life threatening.” — Barry Runyon, Research Vice President, Gartner After a virus shut down their information technology systems in the spring of 2016, MedStar Health refused to admit patients to ten hospitals and 250 outpatient centers. Without easy access to

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A New Story for Healthcare Security and Compliance

The medical information of 150 million Americans has been exposed through 1,500 breach incidents since late 2009. More recently we’ve seen a handful of hospitals succumb to ransomware that locks down key parts of their systems and grinds operations to a halt. With healthcare becoming more of a “team sport” through new payment models and

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