Cybersecurity

The risk of ransomware underscores the importance of compliance.

As the threat of cyber attacks continue to grow, these tips can keep your practice's data safe.

Now that technological advancements exist all around us, sometimes a click is all it would take to hack, corrupt, and wipe out an entire database filled with important details and records of people.

Staying wary of ransomware can keep practices safe from attack.

Healthcare has been a big target for hackers.

Keep abreast of the new cybersecurity laws.

There are plenty of benefits to remote or hybrid teams, but there are also communication and security issues that must be kept in mind.

By making strategic yet affordable investments and undertaking specific basic measures, smaller practices can make great strides to strengthen their defenses.

Recent attacks encouraged new guidelines from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).

Traditional cybersecurity measures aren’t effective anymore.

Covered entities should be balancing a patient’s right to request his/her medical records or designated record set in a particular electronic format with an unacceptable level of security risk to the covered entity’s systems.

In light of a major insurance company recently being hit with ransomware, the importance of protection, detection, and correction cannot be over emphasized.

Cyberthreats are not going away and cybercriminals are becoming more crafty.

H.R. 7898, signed into law on January 5, 2021, addresses the recognition of security practices and amends the HITECH Act – kind of.

Here are five ways to stop a cyber criminal from infiltrating your EHR.

In the wake of COVID-19, healthcare organizations are scrambling to not only protect their patients' lives, but their data and privacy as well.

This is Part III in this series and the focus is on the cybersecurity donation Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) safe harbor and Stark Law exception.

Warnings from government agencies and experts, coupled with recent HHS-OCR settlements, place HIPAA and cybersecurity compliance at the top of one’s “to do” list.

A trifecta of healthcare cybersecurity issues should cause healthcare industry participants to assess their current environments.

Make sure email is a part of your cybersecurity strategy.

More than 500 individuals affected; five new enforecement actions published.

The results of a recent cybersecurity report by CCI Security

Two hot-topic developments in cybersecurity and government procurement.

Working from home can lead to casual conduct, posing compliance risks for your organization.

For practices that have been slow to adopt new technologies, the stakes are much greater as the urgency to get up to speed is intensifying.