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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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5 Ways to Ensure Compliance with Healthcare Cybersecurity Regulations and Frameworks

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Thus, compliance with healthcare cybersecurity regulations is essential for healthcare organizations to protect patient data and maintain trust. We will provide 5 tips to help healthcare organizations keep their cybersecurity regulations in check when implementing remote patient monitoring.

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

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Meta did not enter into HIPAA Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with the organizations in question. Facebook’s use of Meta Pixel amid ever-increasing healthcare cybersecurity concerns raises many questions. HIPAA Compliant Cybersecurity: Practical Implementation Tips.

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Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services

Healthcare IT Today

With that, here are my tips for patients: Think twice before inputting PII or PHI into unknown mobile apps without knowing the practices they follow. First, we have three personas: a patient, a vendor (a 3 rd party solution provider), and a healthcare professional (HCP) or organization (HCO). So, HIPAA may not apply.

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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

2023 was a tipping point for telehealth treatment. Ellen DaSilva, Co-Founder and CEO at Summer Health 1) The portability of data to deeply understand patients has been severely restricted (mostly by HIPAA but I won’t go on the record against it), so there’s a lot of information we’ll never be able to meld.