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How To Respond To A HIPAA Breach

Electronic Health Reporter

HIPAA, and the subsequent Privacy and […]. The article How To Respond To A HIPAA Breach appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. By Richard Bailey, lead IT consultant, Atlantic.Net.

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Ransomware Preparedness in Healthcare – Are you Doing the Basics?

Healthcare IT Today

With the rise in these attacks, healthcare organizations must have an in-depth understanding of their security posture, including how breaches may occur and how to take an offensive approach to defend against them. As such, IT administrators must ensure they are addressing basic security needs.

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October Is For Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Essential HIPAA Security Risk Assessment

Telebehavioral Health Institute

When considering healthcare cybersecurity best practices, HIPAA security risk assessments and HIPAA remediation plans are essential. HIPAA requires organizations to keep exact copies of files at an offsite data backup facility. Incident response: a system for detecting, responding to, and reporting breaches.

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Does Your Team Have These Modern Skills to Protect Healthcare Data?

Healthcare IT Today

Let’s explore the evolution of data protection in the healthcare industry and how the best teams protect it. Regulatory Compliance Mastery Of course, HIPAA is the most prevalent regulation healthcare organizations must adhere to, but over the last decade or so, we are seeing an increase of rules related to patient data.

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The Importance of Healthcare Cybersecurity: Best Practices for Protecting Patient Data and Ensuring HIPAA Compliance

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

According to the HIPAA Journal , between 2009 and 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights received reports of 4,419 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records each. These breaches resulted in the loss, theft, exposure, or unauthorized disclosure of a total of 314,063,186 healthcare records.

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HIPAA Compliance Checklist: How to Protect Patient Data

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires healthcare organizations, including doctors, to maintain the privacy and security of patient data. A practical HIPAA compliance checklist is essential to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations. What Is HIPAA Compliance?

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How Healthcare Can Embrace the Cloud Without Jeopardizing Data

Healthcare IT Today

This data is highly prized by cybercriminals, evidenced by the fact that 76% of healthcare organizations have experienced the trifecta of a cyber breach, threat, and data theft. So what’s causing this hesitancy?