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Managing Healthcare Insider Security Threats
Often when discussing hospital security threats, external breaches are the main focus. However, recent evidence shows those breaches are not the biggest concern to hospitals - they’re more concerned with breaches that can happen within their own halls, by their own...
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Risks of ‘Black Box’ Machine Learning in Compliance and Privacy Programs
Recent machine learning advances have the potential to revolutionize patient care through better clinical risk prediction and precision medicine. Rightfully so, the compliance and privacy communities are adapting these machine learning…
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Often Forgotten Risk to Patient Data
Academic medical centers and health systems with large research groups present unique challenges for EMR access monitoring programs, according to a recent talk by Dr. Daniel Fabbri, Founder and CEO of Maize Analytics. Dr. Fabbri, also an Assistant Professor of...
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Passwords Aren’t Protecting EMR Data
Many healthcare systems rely on user IDs and passwords to control access to electronic medical records (EMR). These safeguards can help protect sensitive patient data. Unfortunately, many healthcare workers share passwords. In one study, 73% of healthcare workers...
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Three Essential Elements of the Compliance Toolkit
Compliance officers regularly navigate one of the most complex systems in our country—health care. To protect patient privacy, they are charged with creating (and enforcing!) policies that align with changing regulations, while juggling practical limitations at their...
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Thoughtfully Connecting EMRs
One of the largest EMR vendors in the country is expanding its services. Epic Systems recently launched “One Virtual System Worldwide,” an initiative to help connect EMRs across institutions. The multifaceted platform helps customers go beyond simply viewing patient data at …
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