HIPAA Compliance: It Only Takes One Email to Cripple Your Health IT
Tip: Change your password often and don't share it with coworkers or friends.
Email has been around for a long time, so it's easy to assume that your staff understands the nuances of spam, junk, or malicious threats that corrupt the practice network. But the rise in email attacks highlights that not all healthcare workers fully understand the implications.
Background: Last year, emails from a myriad of healthcare organizations were the cause of several large-scale HIPAA breaches, according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Breach Portal. In the last quarter of 2017 alone, there were 14 email...
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