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How To Maintain Business Continuity and Compliance During An Emergency

Electronic Health Reporter

Healthcare organizations know just how important it is to comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule to protect sensitive and unstructured data such as patient records, scripts, discharge summaries, medical forms, authorizations, prescriptions, and insurance claims. By Paul Banco, CEO, etherFAX.

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Data Privacy and Security in Healthcare: Navigating the Challenges and Ensuring Patient Trust

Digital Health Global

How keeping up with rapidly converting generation Cyber threats have grown in complexity, requiring constant vigilance from organizations to ensure that patient records are protected. Compliance with data protection rules and standards must also be maintained. Ensuring its privacy and security is therefore a vital problem.

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Guide to a Proactive Healthcare Cybersecurity Stance

Healthcare IT Today

The attack kept Change Healthcare’s systems down for three weeks, even prompting the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to deploy accelerated payments and loan programs for healthcare organizations affected by the attack, akin to the support deployed during the pandemic.

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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger? This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?”

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The Affordable Care Act, and Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore It [UPDATE]

ACA Times

5 minute read: It’s always interesting to look back and see how the contours of a law changes in time. I wrote a five-part series about the ACA for “Construction Business Owners Magazine” in 2015. Regardless of your views about the ACA, as a business owner it is a reality you must deal with.

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CIOs at children's hospitals share lessons from a year of turmoil

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

While juggling all of these challenges during this most unusual period, executives have learned many valuable lessons. That's the theme of this ongoing feature story series, where Healthcare IT News talks with IT leaders to focus on new lessons learned and how the executives will be applying those lessons today and into the future.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Jason Considine, Chief Commercial Officer at Experian Health Staffing shortages will continue to be a major pain point for providers in 2024 and have a direct impact on their bottom line. Dot Havard, Head of Global Workforce at CPSI In the US, the healthcare workforce continues to experience staffing shortages and hiring concerns.

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