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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. With October being “Cybersecurity Awareness Month,” security education and planning should be at the top of the list for many healthcare businesses. .

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Facebook (Meta) Sued Over Data Privacy Practices in Healthcare With Meta Pixel

Telebehavioral Health Institute

This allegedly allowed Facebook to receive Protected Health Information (PHI) of patients, including doctors’ names and medical conditions. All of this information could be linked to the user’s unique IP address. Meta did not enter into HIPAA Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with the organizations in question.

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Telehealth and Cybersecurity: Is Your Crisis Solution Putting You at Risk?

GlobalMed

In the last 20 years, telemedicine has radically cut healthcare costs and brought life-saving care into rural and underserved areas ; during the same period, cybercrime has boomed, with attackers repeatedly targeting healthcare organizations’ rich stores of valuable data. telehealth claims were filed between April and July 2020, a?4,000%?year-over-year

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Ransomware Preparedness in Healthcare – Are you Doing the Basics?

Healthcare IT Today

Awareness of an organization’s potential entry points is especially critical with the increased usage of connected medical devices and telehealth services. Furthermore, the transition to electronic health records (EHRs) has reinforced the need for tightened identity and access management processes.

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How Healthcare Can Embrace the Cloud Without Jeopardizing Data

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Rodman Ramezanian, Global Cloud Threat Lead at Skyhigh Security Healthcare, like other sectors, is undergoing a massive digital transformation to meet the changing needs of patients and workers. So what’s causing this hesitancy?

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7 Quick Steps to Preventing Telehealth IT Security Threats

Telebehavioral Health Institute

With the Public Health Emergency (PHE) ending on May 11, administrators, managers, supervisors, and clinicians may want to quickly run through a checklist of cybersecurity precautions. Discretionary enforcement of HIPAA ends along with the ending of the PHE. Many claims to be HIPAA-compliant, but they are not.

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Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge. Within healthcare, the technology and expertise exist to help providers, payers, public health, health information exchanges, and healthcare IT companies exchange data.