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IT security expert's 6 tips for mobile security in medical settings

by: Roy Edroso Mar 15, 2019

We asked Rob McDonald, vice president of product management for data privacy technology provider Virtru in Washington, D.C., for advice on mobile device security for the medical practice. He gave us this checklist.

3 more steps to protect your practice from a ransomware attack and the aftermath

by: Roy Edroso Sep 12, 2018

In the most recent issue of Part B News, we offer six preventive steps that can save your data in the event of a ransomware attack. In case you want to be extra-secure, our experts now offer three more.

Create a policy, ignore a policy, pay $4 million

by: Julia Kyles, CPC Jun 19, 2018

Expect no mercy when you have a written policy for encryption, then suffer a breach because you fail to follow it.

Opt-out means opt-out: Helpful but unwanted texts cost Outcome Health $2.9 million

by: Roy Edroso Apr 9, 2018

Most people who get in trouble for texts do so for sexual material or threats, but Outcome Health will pay $2.9 million for telling patients "Eat a healthy breakfast" and "Plate your food!"

CMS takes texting to task

by: Julia Kyles, CPC Dec 29, 2017

Practices in search of a texting policy should look no further than CMS' guidance to state survey agency directors, published Dec. 28. Even though medical practices aren't required to followed the guidance, doing so will make life easier for clinicians who won't have to remember one rule when they're at the practice and another rule when they are in a facility such as a hospital or an ambulatory surgical center.

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