Remember when you needed separate keys or cards for everything you did? You kept keys on a keyring, or cards in a wallet, pulling each out depending on where you were and where you were going.
But wallets and keyrings can be lost or misplaced. Depending on your lifestyle, you could end up with a pocketful of entry tools, one each for every single thing you needed access to.
As a healthcare professional today, there are a lot of security worries on your plate. Is your data secure? Are your patients protected? Can hackers find a way in?
Many people approach security with a “wait and see” attitude. They scratch the surface for handling it, and hope for the best each and every day.
Malware. Ransomware. As if there wasn’t enough to plan for as you develop your security strategy, this week brings to attention another threat called killware.
In a USA Today interview, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas revealed that hackers breached a water system in February with the sole intent to distribute contaminated water to Florida residents.
5G is coming. And it’s coming fast.
Right now, carriers are giving deals to help people switch from older platforms. If you’ve been using 4G, you’ll instantly notice speed, coverage, and reliability improvements. That’s reason enough to change.
As a healthcare provider, you have a full array of activities to fill your days.
Seeing patients
Consulting with peers
Interacting with employees
Handling daily tasks
Dealing with immediate problems
Staying up to date with guidelines and regulations
Have you ever felt like you’re handling a 24-hour job in just 8 hours?
Now add in technology.
As a medical provider, how often do you think about the impact of HIPAA on your standard policies and procedures? Are you handling protected health information according to guidelines? Or are you putting data and information in compromising situations daily?
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the five most common compliance issues investigated include:
Impermissible uses and disclosures of protected health information
Lack of safeguards when dealing with protected health information
Lack of patient access to their protected health information
Lack of administrative safeguards when dealing with protected health information
Lack of technical safeguards when dealing with protected health information
As a response, the American Medical Association has created a Patient Records Electronic Access Playbook to aid in helping medical professionals define the roles they have in sharing and safeguarding patient health records.
It’s hard to imagine healthcare without technology. It exists in every aspect, from signing up patients on a website to tracking personal data using wearable technology. We use it to virtually connect with patients and experts, and help control medications and diseases.
It’s hard to imagine being in business these days without a website.
Web design trends change quickly, and if you’re not staying on top of critical changes, it may be costing you more than you think.
While a great website can attract new clients, as it becomes outdated, it can deter people from trusting you, including existing patients.
One laptop is stolen every 53 seconds. Seventy million smartphones are lost each year, with only 7 percent recovered.
The statistics are scary, yet most of us hang to the “not us” belief as we go about our busy days.
We read the stories. We know we should take security more seriously.
2020 was a year of rapid growth for telehealth. Desire for the technology happened so fast, many healthcare organizations jumped on board with various video conferencing and messaging apps without really thinking about the consequences. And that left vulnerabilities.