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Limitless Liability
A year of credit monitoring along with identity theft monitoring services. That’s what most of us settle for when we find out that our personal data has been compromised. We are alerted, we change our password, we read the letter that offers these services and may or may not sign up for them. Some individuals …
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Employee Errors
We all know (or should know) that human error accounts for the majority of breaches. Phishing gives hackers entry to a business’s front door by manipulating the employees who work there. Phishing is when a cyberattack is disguised and delivered using email as the carrier or weapon. Through very convincing and cleverly designed messages, the …
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Employee Coverage
As businesses like shops, restaurants, and others that were previously closed as a result of COVID-19 begin to open, precautions of various kinds are now in place. As the state or perhaps local government encourages and sometimes requires protective gear, employers must take into consideration how it will affect their workforce. One outward-facing and immediate …
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Employee Privacy in a Pandemic
COVID-19 has presented businesses with a new challenge in keeping their company safe and it starts with employee health. As they re-open in the wake of the pandemic, they must keep track of individual health with regard to who is sick and how it might affect the company as a whole. This means that a …
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Is COVID-19 Unraveling HIPAA?
Let’s Recap The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) was created in 1996 to protect patients and their privacy, and if you are in healthcare, you already know this and are familiar with what it means. With a goal to ensure that people could maintain health insurance between jobs, thus the “Portability” part of …
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Delaying Treatment
The Patients Are Not Equal As COVID-19 took over in the headlines, it also took over at many hospitals around the country. We saw a rise in the number of patients that were taken in and diagnosed with the virus, but there was an unexpected result as well. The rate of decline in-patient activity didn’t …
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Lenient Doesn’t Mean Lazy
In mid-March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that they would use “enforcement discretion” in regard to HIPAA compliance with telehealth. And, the healthcare community gave out a collective sigh of relief. Not because the rules and regulations were unfair, but in a time of uncertainty, …
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Changes Ahead
While we have all had to adjust in obvious ways to the pandemic, the reality is that after the panic subsides, and after the immediate emergency vibe in the air passes, we will never return to the way things once were. We are in a new reality, or as many keep saying, a new normal. …
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Healthcare Trendsetters
COVID-19 has given us a type of Fashion Week within healthcare, where new trends and rising stars emerge unexpectedly, and all at an alarmingly fast pace down the virtual runway. We are seeing work from home take on a whole new significance, which leads to new software platforms rising in popularity, existing applications modified to …
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Mental Health Assessments
We find ourselves months into the trenches of the COVID-19 crisis, and with each new day comes not only a different set of problems but new solutions as well. As first responders, public safety officers, and the medical community continue to show the need to increase hires within their fields, the process to make those …
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