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|Articles|January 26, 2021
5 Ways to Thwart Cyberattacks on Your EHR
Author(s)C. Noel Henley, MD, Logan Lutton
Here are five ways to stop a cyber criminal from infiltrating your EHR.
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Time and money matter when it comes to preventing a cyberattack. If you don’t allocate enough time or resources to update software patches and updates to your EHR, your practice could be vulnerable, said Jim Kelton, managing principal at Costa Mesa, Calif.-based Altius Information Technologies.
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