There are a lot of good reasons for building a remote care practice.
Suddenly, both patients and medical staff are finding new and improved ways to make each visit more thorough, more personalized. But even though it’s become the “new norm” for the moment, eventually, our options will expand once again.
What’s one of the top benefits people look for when job hunting? Flexibility. People desire to work from home at least on a part-time basis.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about one-quarter of the US population worked remotely at least part time in 2018. An analysis performed by Flexjobs and Global Workplace Analytics showed that remote work has exploded by 159 percent over the past twelve years.
Have you heard of zoombombing? It’s only the latest tactic hackers are using to cause trouble with work-at-home tools.
When a Zoom group is in a session, watching a presentation, or taking part in a meeting, a troll enters and takes over the screen.
Welcome to a crash course in telemedicine. In a matter of days, we’ve gone from a fully functioning world to millions of people confined to their homes.
But the world doesn’t stop just because we’re stuck indoors. Patients still need medical advice.
Working remotely is often everyone’s dream … until you have no choice. As one day blends into the next, you suddenly discover all the things you miss by being away from your normal routine.
It’s not just your morning coffee, or heading out to lunch with friends.
Panic. No matter what your belief system tells you to be true about the coronavirus, you can’t ignore the sense of overwhelm that is now a global issue.
With panic comes opportunity.
Princess Cruises just announced that in addition to dealing with outbreaks of coronavirus, it’s also dealing with a data breach.
Do you have a vulnerability management policy built into your security plan?
Vulnerability management is the practice of identifying, classifying, prioritizing, remediating, and mitigating software vulnerabilities.
On the surface, the purpose of vulnerability management seems to be to prioritize riskiness, and take action accordingly.
Security: It brings instant thoughts to mind:
The lock on your front door.
The firewall built into your operating system.
The password you use to login to your bank account.
A hacker knows you’re paying attention to the obvious. What a criminal is looking for is a back door.
All around you, firmware is helping you build your practice, and get things done.
Firmware is the permanent software programmed into read-only memory of many of the devices you use everyday.
It’s in the code of your printer
It’s in the software controlling the heart defibrillator in your patient room
It’s in the design of your virtual personal assistant, the one you talk to every day, the one who listens to everything you say
It goes beyond that.
Have you made significant changes to your practice based on HIPAA laws? Think your data is safe enough?
Think again.
There’s a new kid in town - CCPA - the latest in laws designed to protect data.
You may have heard about CCPA - California Consumer Privacy Act - which went into law on January 1st.