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Many people are feeling hopeful in many areas about receiving their COVID vaccine. A welcome shift from the uncertainty and confusion of the last year. But there are now new challenges to be faced. Among them, the discussion of requiring a vaccine or immunity passport for individuals to take part in activities like international travel, as well as more minor …
The past twelve months have been a strange time of evolving demands on global healthcare services, as well staggering transformations in the digital sphere. In many hospitals, these two topics overlap, as healthcare organizations are increasingly targeted in online attacks. Healthcare workers don’t have time to digest information about cybersecurity and password practices. But each day threat actors bang at …
According to the 2020 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey With the continually expanding concerns of cyber-attacks on the healthcare industry, organizations must invest in secure systems. Breaches happen to healthcare organizations of all sizes because they are rich sources of sensitive information. The findings of the 2020 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey suggest the rate at which healthcare organizations are improving their cybersecurity posture …
After experiencing a massive ransomware attack that caused the near-shutdown of 400 sites, the Universal Health Services (UHS) has become the most recent example to highlight the issue of cybersecurity in health care organizations. In a recent statement, UHS revealed that the attack affected acute care facilities and behavioral health hospitals, as well as corporate level systems, and caused UHS …
Account takeover for employees, customers, and users has become a real issue since the COVID-19 outbreak. Here is why that is and what organizations can do about it. Since its discovery in December 2019, the novel Coronavirus, Covid-19, has spread throughout the world and caused significant disruption. This disruption has taken many forms. Of course, the most serious consequence of …
What is HIPAA Password Compliance and How Healthcare Organizations Can Comply with these Authentication Guidelines. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) was introduced in 1996 but has become increasingly prominent in recent years due to the rise of data breaches in the industry. Data breaches have been on the rise across all industries in the past five years, but …
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) describes how organizations must keep protected health information (PHI) secure. So how exactly are employee passwords supposed to be handled in light of HIPAA? It’s important to understand how HIPAA handles the topic of passwords in order for organizations to properly implement the guidelines in their data protection strategies. What Organizations are …
Our recommended healthcare password policies that complement and support HITRUST. Since its founding in 2007, HITRUST (Health Information Trust Alliance) champions programs that safeguard sensitive information and manage information risk for global organizations across all industries. HITRUST works with privacy, information security, and risk management leaders from the public and private sectors, to develop common risk and compliance management frameworks, …
Employee password security is a significant issue for healthcare providers. How can hospitals and other healthcare providers tackle password security concerns? The healthcare industry sector is increasingly the target of cybercriminals. As more providers move internal systems online, leverage connected medical devices, and host medical records on patient portals; they become even more vulnerable as targets for cybercriminals. Healthcare Providers …
