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HIPAA Security Reminder of the Week

What is PHI? PHI is individually identifiable health information which is created or received by a health care provider, health plan, or health care clearinghouse. Such information relates to the past, present or future physical health, mental health or condition of an individual AND can be directly tied to an [...]

How to stop ransomware attacks in 2017

The screen shows an ominous message. Your system is locked, and you have hours or a few days to pay the ransom to have it unlocked. Conveniently, there’s a big countdown timer on the screen to help you keep track of how much time you have left. You ask around, [...]

Ready for 2017: the year of ransomware?

It sounds easy: never negotiate with terrorists or other criminals. It’s not so simple, however, as the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center found out after its communications systems were held hostage by ransomware in February. It fought back for 10 days, but after staff at the 434-bed hospital were reduced to [...]

Convertibles make health care IT flexible

Computers have traditionally come in one of a few carefully defined forms. Desktop computers are systems that you go somewhere to use. Laptop computers are machines you can carry different places to use. Tablets are devices you can use while standing up. Health care professionals and administrators would choose the [...]

Is this the most exciting cable ever?

There are three clichés about USB cables that emerge instantly: 1. The drawer full of knotted charging and connecting cables that would give your tidiness consultant a dizzy spell 2. Arriving for a meeting without the right cables for all your devices 3. Realizing you have thrown away the one [...]

Distance learning platforms

Universities are increasingly offering entire degrees online in an effort to cater to a burgeoning crop of students who are learning by distance education. According to the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (INACOL), online education is continuing to grow at a stunning rate, with kindergarten through twelfth-grade online programs [...]

HIPAA Security Reminder of the Week

How to stop ransomware attacks in 2017

Ready for 2017: the year of ransomware?

Is this the most exciting cable ever?

Distance learning platforms

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