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1. Q1 Cybersecurity Recap: Major events, initiatives, and trends
We are a quarter through the year, and it’s proving to be an eventful one for healthcare organizations everywhere.
Looking ahead:
- The Change Healthcare attack could signal a shift in future policy or response measures.
- The HHS recently delivered an annual report on HIPAA compliance and breaches.
- A Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) report described value-based care programs as helping improve care at a lower cost. CMS needs help attracting practices to the payment model.
What’s happened so far and what we can expect next.
2. All about patient experience - HMPS24
The Paubox team is in Las Vegas for the 29th Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit hosted by The Forum for Healthcare Strategists.
The event: The Summit focuses on strategic marketing, communication strategy, patient engagement, and topics related to healthcare business growth and sales.
Why it matters: Our mission is to become the market leader for HIPAA compliant communication.
It's all about personalized communication
3. Report: 33 percent of healthcare websites still use pixel tracking
LOKKER, a technology service provider, recently reported that many organizations still use pixels to collect and track data.
What happened: They also found 33% of healthcare companies use the Meta pixel on their websites despite significant pressure from the government, mounting lawsuits, and breaches.
Nearly 2% of all companies shared data directly with Russia or China
4. Paubox customers: Paubox Zoom social mixer (April 2024)
The social mixer was a roundtable discussion covering ChatGPT and HIPAA, new cybersecurity threats, the impact of inflation on margins, and DLP best practices.
Our takeaways:
- IT departments will have to monitor how employees are using ChatGPT
- Paubox customers see a massive jump of bad emails blocked after using Geofencing
- 54% of CISOs struggle to convince the board to prioritize cybersecurity investments
Decryption tools in case of an attack
5. Report: HHS office may have put data at risk
The HHS OIG says the Administration for Children and Families stored data in an at-risk cloud system.
Going deeper: Findings indicated that security control of access enforcement and information input validation were both at critical levels of vulnerability. Many other security components were at a high or medium level of vulnerability.
A “high risk of compromise.”
Community links
- Behavioral health and AI - NatCon24. Link
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta sued for allegedly sharing patient data with Facebook. Link
- FTC fines Cerebral $7.1 million for privacy violations and deceptive practices. Link
- Medicare data exposed in data breach at Boston consulting firm. Link
- Features to look for in a HIPAA compliant email service provider. Link
- Using HIPAA compliant emails for home healthcare. Link
- Infostealers: A rising malware threat in the healthcare industry. Link
- When is a non-healthcare company a covered entity? Link
- What is pharming? Link
- Are automated responses HIPAA compliant? Link
Good reads from around the web
- Administration officials discuss cybersecurity threats affecting hospitals. Link
- Cybersecurity investigators worry ransomware attacks may worsen as young, Western hackers work with Russians. Link
- Lawmakers target mergers in first hearing on Change Healthcare hack. Link
- Driving healthcare growth with a consumer-led strategy. Link
- 6 strategies to support healthcare professionals' mental health. Link
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