Protected Health Information, File Sharing and Email

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Protecting patient information is a crucial and necessary part of healthcare… but so is communicating effectively with patients. Considering that email continues to be the most common form of electronic communication, it stands to reason that providers meet patients where they are. 

However, HIPAA regulations have rather strict requirements for protecting PHI, and plain email just doesn’t cut it. Here, we’ll discuss how to effectively use email to engage with patients without breaking compliance.

 

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What Are the Four Types of Risk Management?

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We’ve discussed risk management and its complexity–what goes into it, what frameworks you can use, and how different forms of analysis and visualization can help you assess it effectively. 

But let’s pump the brakes a little. Have you thought about what to do about your risk profile? Do you know how to approach risk as a problem that needs a solution?

Here, we will discuss the four types of risk management approaches that enterprises use to address and navigate their cybersecurity risk.

 

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Managed Service Providers: How Secure Are Your Services?

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The increasing use of cloud vendors and third-party providers has made advanced IT infrastructure and expertise available even to smaller organizations. It has also created an interconnected ecosystem of businesses, government agencies, utility firms and managed service providers (MSPs) that can potentially compromise security across multiple systems. 

If you’re a managed service provider, it’s your responsibility to ensure that your systems are secure, that your partnerships are equally secure, and that you maintain continuing risk management and monitoring against all services. 

 

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