It’s a Fact When you search for cyberattacks by vertical, always in the top categories is healthcare. It can be filtered from there by the size of the business, whether it is enterprise or small to medium-sized establishments, but the information targeted is patient data. Why? Because who knows more personal information about you than...
HIPAA – Then & Now The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, better known as HIPAA, has been around since 1996, with the intent to protect patients by properly handling their protected health information (PHI). With good intentions, HIPAA set forth to provide both security provisions and data privacy. The legislation was passed in the...
As many of you know, an Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a digital record of a patient’s paper charts, updated in real-time. This is an incredible option to have in the world of medicine, where information can be exchanged between doctors as well as business associates. It also provides an incredible benefit to the patient,...
We’re just passed the midway point of the year and if this were our own health report, we’d be failing miserably when it comes to data breach prevention. According to a recent report from Protenus and Databreaches.net, over 31 million healthcare records were breached in the first six months of 2019. That is double the...
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