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Healthcare Compliance Professionals Grapple with Mounting Risks and Limited Resources

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A new report from Barnes & Thornburg reveals that healthcare compliance professionals are facing mounting pressure as they navigate a complex regulatory landscape, increasing cyberattacks, and the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI).

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Ensuring the Security and Privacy of Patient Data while Managing Large Volumes of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

Healthcare IT Today

We can’t give up the digital transformations we’ve made in our organizations but we also can’t ignore the looming threat of security threats and ransomware attacks. Does your vendor maintain proper certification and compliance? Compliance is important, but healthcare leaders cant stop there.

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Breach Prevention: 5 Best Practices to Protect Your Data

MRO Compliance

Common reasons for security breaches include: Ransomware. This committee should oversee the organization’s patient privacy compliance program and conduct quarterly risk analyses and assessments. Organizations should provide formal training at least once a year to ensure compliance with applicable federal and state laws.

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Healthcare Remains Top Target in 2022 ITRC Breach Report

Compliancy Group

Cyberattacks continued to be criminals’ weapons of choice, with 1,595 breaches in 2022, a slight decrease from 1,613 in 2021, with drops year-over-year in the number of breaches attributed to phishing, ransomware, and malware. Make Sure You’re HIPAA Compliant HIPAA compliance protects you against breaches.

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Third-Party Cyberattacks: The Healthcare Sector’s Achilles’ Heel

HIT Consultant

Earlier this year, Change Healthcare , a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare, experienced a ransomware attack that came into the organization’s network through a third-party provider, resulting in a theft of 4TB of data and costing Change $22 million in ransom. healthcare organization.”

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Security Breaches in Healthcare in 2023

HIPAA Journal

which does business as PJ&A NV Business Associate 8,952,212 Hackers access to its network between March 27, 2023, and May 2, 2023 Managed Care of North America (MCNA) GA Business Associate 8,861,076 Ransomware attack with data leak (LockBit ransomware group) Welltok, Inc.

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HIPAA Compliant Environment or a Culture of Compliance?

Compliancy Group

But security and compliance are not the same things. Here are the things to consider to help evolve beyond a HIPAA Compliant Environment and create a Culture of Compliance that adds value to your organization. HIPAA Compliant Environment or a Culture of Compliance – Super Security Kryptonite. Compliancy Group can help!

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