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Sensitive Data Requires Great Responsibility: The Importance of ‘Privacy and Security by Design’ in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Chris Bowen, founder and CISO at ClearDATA In healthcare, sensitive data comes with great responsibility. For companies entrusted with managing and protecting patients’ personal information, ensuring the privacy of that data must be the highest priority.

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3 Tips for Securing Private Healthcare Data

HIT Consultant

Technology is a dominant force in healthcare. During the pandemic, healthcare systems relied on technology to swiftly move to virtual care, remote work, and more collaborative communication and data management systems – and that will accelerate. Restrict Access to Data and Applications.

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Embracing Interoperability in Healthcare?

Lexis Nexis

Unlocking patient data is instrumental to your success, whether you are a healthcare provider, health IT vendor, or payer. The 21st Century Cures Act , passed in 2016, granted greater visibility and importance to interoperability by promoting patient control, more informed decision-making, and more efficient healthcare systems.

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5 Strategies for Providers to Overcome ePHI Security Challenges

HIT Consultant

According to the report, HIPAA violations surged by 39% between 2017 and 2021 and the number of large healthcare data breaches (those affecting 500 or more records) rose by 58%. More than 5,000 incidents were reported, compromising more than 382 million healthcare records and surpassing the population of the United States by 1.2

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Texting patient information – The latest from CMS

Health Blawg

Last month, the Health Care Compliance Association published a story stating that CMS had sent emails to two different hospitals stating that text messaging (including secure messaging services) is verboten. Fear not, gentle reader. Comments […] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and. CMS has a communications problem.

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Texting patient information – The latest from CMS

Health Blawg

Last month, the Health Care Compliance Association published a story stating that CMS had sent emails to two different hospitals stating that text messaging (including secure messaging services) is verboten. Fear not, gentle reader. Comments […] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and. Comments Comments.

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways

Health Blawg

by National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways - Health Data Answers Related Stories Anand Oswal, SVP at Cisco, on Building a Better Network – Harlow On Healthcare Leslie Krigstein of CHIME on Health IT Challenges and Opportunities – Harlow on Healthcare Talking Healthcare Data Security on HIMSS.tv