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HIPAA TIPS: Implementing a Security Management Process

Lead Your Culture, Select Your Team, and Learn Designate a Security Officer(s): Your security officer will be responsible for developing and maintaining your security practices to meet HIPAA requirements. The security officer will work with others to protect your patients’ electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) from unauthorized access. Discuss HIPAA [...]

Bringing More Than Your Laptop Back to the Office

Working from home. It was fun while it lasted for many of us. Some people are scrambling to get back to the office to escape makeshift dining room desks that compete with family life and chaos, or just crave the social interaction and other structure that office environments provide. You [...]

Down the Pipeline

Just as it seemed we might be seeing clear skies ahead in terms of the pandemic, another dark cloud began to rise on the horizon. The Colonial Pipeline breach hit the news and many people began to panic. We were all too familiar with uncertainty of the future and last [...]

Vaccination Passports

Many people are getting their vaccines for their own safety, for the general well-being of the public, for their jobs, and some are getting it so that they can safely travel again. In fact, many people are doing this because they know that they won’t be able to leave their [...]

It’s Not for Everyone

Telehealth Is Not Everyone’s First Choice With regard to telehealth statistics, we saw a great rise in the number of participants during the past year with COVID-19. It was a perfect solution for many people, especially if leaving their homes meant putting them in danger due to their high-risk factors [...]

Oversharing

From patient experience to alerting the public about the pandemic, individuals and corporations are taking to the ‘digital airwaves’ of TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms to spread awareness and messaging. This sounds like a great idea. You have essentially free airtime to a large audience, right? Well yes, but [...]

Fake Supplements

Buying a knockoff purse or jersey is one thing, and we can take you down a rabbit hole of “why you shouldn’t do that” that would occupy you for hours. But when it comes to items you ingest and don’t simply wear, you need to pay attention. Supplementing your healthcare [...]

A Different Kind of Health Hero

A Year of Heroic Feats The healthcare industry has been called to task this year in ways that make them heroic in the eyes of the world. As a global community, words can’t accurately convey the gratitude they deserve from all of us. Today we’re going to talk about another [...]

Dark Web Dangers

With healthcare being a top target in the world of cybercrime, it never hurts to do a review every so often of the landscape and of the players in the game. We’ll also take a look at how you might be compromised without even knowing it or suspecting it could [...]

Humans of Healthcare

With healthcare being a huge target of cybercrime, the immediate concern is likely with regard to how it will coincide with any HIPAA regulation – or revealing any failure to comply. First thoughts usually go to the business side of a situation. How much will this cost? Will we be [...]

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