The healthcare industry reports that video hijacking, or teleconference hijacking, emergence on the rise as telehealth appointments replace typical in-person ones during the COVID-19 crisis. The FBI has received multiple reports of conferences being disrupted by pornographic images, hate images and threatening language. Yet another reason that, even though OCR has indicated it will not … Read more
In MACRA (the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act), it looks as though CMS is taking HIPAA compliance to the next level. The agency makes the security risk analysis a lynchpin in one of the primary MIPS measures. MIPS, the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System, incentivizes quality, improvement and advancing care information performance. If clinicians … Read more
Product and gadget creators get in a tight spot when IoT (the Internet of Things) security takes a back seat. It sounds harmless: “Let’s get to market then release security updates.” Getting market share vs taking care of security seems like a matter of course. Until someone uses that security gap to shut down a power plant. … Read more
The risk is real. With all of the attention on external threats to ePHI, like ransomware and cyberattacks, healthcare organizations and their digital health vendors may be distracted from threat of insider risk. Yet according to a recent HHS OCR newsletter “insider threat is becoming one of the largest threats to organizations and some cyberattacks may … Read more
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