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4 Data Security Challenges for Healthcare Organizations in 2022

HIT Consultant

They can access high-value patient PHI/PII data and use it maliciously to disrupt the patient’s treatment routine and bring down uptime, which is critical. It has repercussions on patients, doctors, hospitals, and everything associated with the healthcare ecosystem.

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Enhancing Workflow Automation for Healthcare Professionals

HIT Consultant

As a result, it becomes someone’s job to manually transmit data between e-fax and external systems on a regular basis. If this individual is unavailable, data entry falls once again onto the shoulders of doctors or nurses. Workflow automation can also enhance critical healthcare data security.

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys, Part 3: The Futures of Cybersecurity in Healthcare

Health Populi

health care organizations have experienced a data breach, one-third in the last 3 years, according to Software Advice’s 2024 Healthcare Data Security Survey released in May 2024. At least one-half of U.S.