Your teammate needs a file. Why not just attach it to an email and send it?

Or maybe you need to check a patient’s record. Why not download it and open it up on your phone?

According to a new report by Netwrix, 2020 Cyber Threats Report, the pandemic has significantly changed the way we approach data security.

Drones flying close by, monitoring behavior for anything out of the ordinary.

Touchless technology being implemented everywhere.

Thermal imaging cameras observing skin temperatures of people in a crowd.

Our world has changed a lot this year. As we adapt and work to find ways of keeping public spaces safe, we’re opening up to a world of new opportunities.

In a year of change, focusing on your business’s most important details is more critical than ever.

As 2020 began, virtual medicine was booming, up 33 percent over the previous year. All that changed as March rolled into April, and we realized stay-in-place would be with us for a long time.

When COVID-19 hit in early 2020, one of the first things authorities did was create a plan to start tracking where positive-tested people had been.

Contact tracing is key to controlling who has the virus, who they are around, so that people can be notified and begin self-isolation for a specific period of time.

According to a new report put out by US Health and Human Services, virtual patient interaction climbed as much as 51 percent in the first six months of 2020. As more health care providers look to expand their services to include videoconferencing, it also opens up the question of HIPAA compliance issues.

Imagine driving into work, ready for a typical day. You expect to pull patient records, get ready for a day of performing surgeries, check-in with scheduled patients - your mind is focused on all you need to do.

But walking through your office door, you know something isn’t right.

As we look back at the 2020 landscape, we’ll all agree one word describes the year perfectly: confusion. We quickly learned to scramble and build new systems where before there were none.

Healthcare is no exception. Thanks to government regulation and a change in technology, practices were looking for new ways of doing business even before the pandemic.

How many hours a day are you online? How many apps, programs, and gadgets are tracking your every move?

While it’s not something we think about regularly, chances are you’re creating data in some fashion every single hour, night and day.

If you wear a Fitbit, it’s tracking your sleeping habits.

Hospitals are merging with other medical facilities. Big labs are acquiring smaller facilities. Mergers and acquisitions in healthcare have grown into a multi-billion dollar industry.

Of course, it’s not just the biggest names in the industry that join forces.

How many employees do you have? Are they trained and performing to the best of their abilities?

Those questions are becoming more challenging to answer. We’re blurring the lines of what work really means.

It might be standing in a room, talking with a patient.