White Papers in Standards, Regulations & Compliance

The State of Patient Identity Management: 2019 Survey Results Report

As part of healthcare's digital transformation, payers and providers alike have rolled out patient portals and telemedicine platforms to increase access to care, improve patient participation and decrease healthcare administrative costs. How secure are these portals? What types of authentication protocols are used to...

How Can Deception Technology Help The Healthcare Industry?

Yesterday's threat detection is not working. Companies must reshape their cybersecurity programs, knowing that attackers are always looking for a way in - or may have already penetrated. There are numerous ways healthcare organizations can benefit from a deception approach as new cyber vulnerabilities and risks in...

Demonstrating HIPAA Compliance

At its core, HIPAA compliance is simply about maintaining patient privacy by ensuring the appropriate access to and use of patient data by your users. Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions provide detail around when patient data is accessed, but without visibility into what users do with sensitive patient data...

HIPAA Compliance: What The Healthcare Industry Needs To Know

At its core, compliance for HIPAA is simply about maintaining patient privacy by ensuring your users appropriately access and use patient data. Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions provide detail around when patient data is accessed. The challenge, however, is the lack of visibility into what users do with...

Meeting Stringent HIPAA Regulations: Your Guide To Safeguarding Patient Data

Since March 2016, the OCR has been increasingly aggressive in bringing enforcement actions against healthcare organizations who have had PHI compromised through data breaches. Get this guide to learn the important aspects of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and how an appropriate...

Developing a Secure, HIPAA Compliant Roadmap to the Public Cloud

In the on-prem world, companies needed experts for each major area of IT provenance: hardware, networking, systems administration, security, operating systems, virtualization, workload balancing, data integration, data cleansing and quality, and then all the function-specific applications that drive everyday business...

Secure HIPAA Compliant Cloud Computing

Achieving HIPAA compliance is a journey, not a destination. The regulatory landscape is constantly changing, resources are stretched beyond capacity, disparate systems make it difficult to assess and remediate gaps, and the sophistication of cybercriminals is accelerating faster than most healthcare organizations can...

How to Defend Against Ransomware: Healthcare Fights Back

MedStar is but the latest healthcare entity to fall victim to a ransomware attack. What can organizations do proactively to improve their ransomware defenses and response? PhishMe CEO Rohyt Belani offers insight. It's no surprise that healthcare entities are being targeted, Belani says - and not just by ransomware,...

Medical Alert for Hospitals: Celebrity Snooping Places PHI at Risk and Kills Your Reputation

Celebrity snooping at healthcare facilities highlights an alarming - and often unchecked - trend: PHI privacy violations committed by current or former employees, contractors, and other insiders. Protecting patient privacy comes down to more than policies and regulations. What's needed is a way to enforce PHI...

Realizing the Promise of Health Information Exchange

Health information exchange (HIE) - the electronic movement of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards - has the potential to transform nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery in this country. Recent policies have helped fund major growth in the world of...

The State of Medical Image Archiving: A Survey for Healthcare IT Professionals

The increase in the availability and quality of medical images is enabling healthcare providers to successfully diagnose and resolve more patient problems than ever before. The downside is the demand placed on IT organizations to retain numerous medical images with huge file sizes in a reliable, secure, scalable, and...

Don't Fear the Cloud

Security professionals at organizations adopting cloud computing solutions must put in place policies, processes and relationships that will result in keeping enterprise data safe. This industry perspective recommends: Adopting high-level information security policies as well as granular procedures and standards...

Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as if Your Business Depends on It

Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...