Healthcare Compliance

Social Media and Healthcare: Bane and Gain

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Chris Secrest

February 17, 2012

Social media has both helped and hurt organizations and healthcare is certainly no exclusion. Many entities are getting on, or have been on for some time, the social media band wagon. This can lead to some fairly significant issues for organizations, especially healthcare. So how does an entity prevent these breaches?
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Healthcare Compliance

Secure the Silver

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Chris Secrest

December 29, 2011

While most healthcare organizations work on securing PHI there is usually one element that I’ve found that isn’t secured with the same rigor as most other physical PHI; X-rays.
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Healthcare Compliance

Data Breach Alphabet Soup

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Chris Secrest

December 12, 2011

Theodore J. Kobus III published his A to Z of Healthcare Data Breaches, which he presented at the annual America Society for Healthcare Risk Management conference. This list may be ideal to use or model your own internal training after for more than just data breaches.
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Healthcare Compliance

Medical Device Security

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Chris Secrest

October 5, 2011

Speaking generally about medical device security there is a lot of confusion about what can be done to ensure that privacy and security is maintained on, for all intents and purposes let’s call them “smart” devices.
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