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Rising Danger

Meticulous Research released a market research report “Healthcare Cybersecurity Market”, that indicated a number that anyone in healthcare would want to be aware of. They expect that by 2027 – which sounds far off but is NOT – the cybersecurity market within healthcare will reach $26.1billion with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.8% […]

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Rising Danger

Meticulous Research released a market research report “Healthcare Cybersecurity Market”, that indicated a number that anyone in healthcare would want to be aware of. They expect that by 2027 – which sounds far off but is NOT – the cybersecurity market within healthcare will reach $26.1billion with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.8% …

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Pipeline Problems & Healthcare

The recent attack on the Colonial Pipeline has (hopefully) reawakened any slumbering notion that cybersecurity isn’t everyone’s problem.  Not sure what we mean?  To recap at a high level, a cybercrime group identified as DarkSide hacked Colonial Pipeline’s infrastructure.  As a result, the company acknowledged that they were the “victim of a cybersecurity attack” that …

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Pipeline Problems & Healthcare

The recent attack on the Colonial Pipeline has (hopefully) reawakened any slumbering notion that cybersecurity isn’t everyone’s problem.  Not sure what we mean?  To recap at a high level, a cybercrime group identified as DarkSide hacked Colonial Pipeline’s infrastructure.  As a result, the company acknowledged that they were the “victim of a cybersecurity attack” that […]

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Document Storage

While the world is moving to electronic storage as a standard, there are still physical documents within healthcare that need to be protected and fall under HIPAA regulations.  Let’s take a look at how that should be handled. As paper can pile up, how long do you have to store HIPAA documents?  And what do …

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Document Storage

While the world is moving to electronic storage as a standard, there are still physical documents within healthcare that need to be protected and fall under HIPAA regulations.  Let’s take a look at how that should be handled. As paper can pile up, how long do you have to store HIPAA documents?  And what do […]

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Inadvertent Exposure

You know that your data is valuable.  It might not be in the obvious way, and you might be unaware that it is the collective data that provides hackers with more power over you.  Proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule might lead to an inadvertent way of exposing that patient data.  Yes, the very …

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Your Prescription for Healthcare

Your patients arrive in your office with injuries and ailments that threaten their health. You review the situation and prescribe a plan of action and perhaps medication that will remedy the situation at best and alleviate pain or risk as well.You give them a prescription for health.Because that’s what you do. When it comes to …

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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 home base if they don’t …

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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 linked to the virus. Equally …

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