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To stay connected with patients, healthcare providers are turning to telehealth services. In fact, 34.5 million telehealth services were delivered from March through June, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The shift to remote… Continue reading Four easy steps for organizations to hand over data control
To stay connected with patients, healthcare providers are turning to telehealth services. In fact, 34.5 million telehealth services were delivered from March through June, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The shift to remote… Continue reading Four easy steps for organizations to hand over data control
Securing medical devices is not a new challenge. Former Vice President Cheney, for example, had the wireless capabilities of a defibrillator disabled when implanted near his heart in 2007, and hospital IT departments and health providers have for years… Continue reading Working together to secure our expanding connected health future
There are growing privacy concerns among Americans due to COVID-19 with nearly 70 percent citing they would likely sever healthcare provider ties if they found that their personal health data was unprotected, a CynergisTek survey reveals. Privacy conce… Continue reading 70% of consumers would cut ties with doctors over unprotected health data
Threatpost’s latest poll probes telehealth security risks and asks for IT cures. Continue reading Telehealth Poll: How Risky Are Remote Doctor Visits?
While COVID-19 has proven the healthcare industry’s overall resilience, it has also increased its cybersecurity risk with new and emerging threats. The rapid adoption and onboarding of telehealth vendors led to a significantly increased digital f… Continue reading Telehealth is healthcare industry’s biggest cybersecurity risk
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently relaxed HIPAA enforcement: they won’t penalize providers who use tools for telehealth that are not HIPAA compliant. It makes sense. Over the last six weeks, telehe… Continue reading HIPAA, Telehealth and COVID-19
There may be dark horses waiting to break out when this pandemic is over. Paraphrasing “A Tale of Two Cities,” this is the worst time, but also maybe the best time. Continue reading Will China’s coronavirus-related trends shape the future for American VCs?
The novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything: where your employees work, how they work and even how they go to the doctor. To limit in-person interactions with medical staff and to help prevent the spread, people are being encouraged… Continue reading COVID-19 Response: Following Best Telehealth Security Practices
A vocal senator on U.S. cybersecurity matters wrote on Monday to four government agencies, seeking more information about how they are working to mitigate cyber risk in the health care sector. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., asked the agencies how they were working to resolve apparent security vulnerabilities and urged them to provide strategic recommendations on how to fend off attacks in the medical sector. Warner’s office wrote to the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and National Institute of Standards and Technology. The letter comes amid ongoing scrutiny over an apparent lack of security at many health care organizations. Hackers have haunted the industry for years, leveraging medical devices to steal valuable personal information or launch highly publicized ransomware attacks. The senator last week asked a number of health care organizations how the federal government can more effectively help rectify […]
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