12 tips for responding to rising healthcare IT security threats
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Everyone knows healthcare IT security is difficult. Not everyone knows how to make it easier. The recent Privacy & Security Forum, hosted by HIMSS Media and Healthcare IT News, aimed to change that by offering practical steps that healthcare organizations can take to avoid the negligent risks that lead to hacks, breaches, negative publicity and fines. These 12 tips will help HIPAA-covered entities and business associates – be they payers, providers, vendors or subcontractors – react and respond to an evolving threat landscape. Meanwhile, the event’s session on how Boston Children’s Hospital hit back at Anonymous offered organizations a firsthand account of responding to all-too-common attacks and provided some suggestions for trying to get ahead of hackers.
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