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• Industry Blog: Red Flag Rules: The FTC Piles On

  7/29/2009

  The FTC Red Flags Rule will be effective November 1, 2009. This rule requires "creditors" under certain "covered accounts" to maintain a heightened alertness to numerous categories of "red flags" that may indicate that the consumer who is the rightful account holder is the victim of identity theft. If a red flag is triggered, the creditor must take steps to notify the consumer and correct any inappropriate information included the creditor's records. By David Harlow, Principal, The Harlow Group LLC
• Ransomware: Another Sign Of Security Challenges

  4/19/2016

  A new security trend has emerged in the healthcare sector: ransomware attacks. In recent weeks, three large hospitals have been infected with malware that demands money in order to decrypt sensitive data. Most recently, Kentucky-based Methodist Hospital had malware spread across their entire internal networks. The company resorted to shutting down all of its machines in order to scan each one for infections. As of this writing, they had not paid any ransom.

• Conducting Research, Even When Disasters Strike

  3/20/2017

  Disasters often unfold suddenly and unpredictably (explosions), with a short lead time to prepare (hurricanes) or over extended time periods (droughts). Each disaster event can present its own set of public health threats. By Steve Ramsey, MPH, Project Manager and Senior Advisor for Epidemiological Field Studies, Social & Scientific Systems, Inc.

• Private Practice Streamlines Clinician And Patient Care Processes With Tablet Computing

  5/19/2011

  This case study highlights how Clinique Esquirol Saint Hilaire was able to gain real-time access to procedural information, eliminate duplication of effort, and increase data security by deploying 85 tablet PCs across its 15 healthcare departments. By Motion Computing, Inc.
• 4 Healthcare Industry Predictions For 2017

  9/23/2016

  As 2016 comes to a close, recollections from 2016 and predictions for 2017 will begin to fill up your email inbox and the pages of your favorite publications. While policy wonks in different domains wax poetically about foreign relations, the economy, and military spending, I wanted to pay homage to the healthcare industry by offering a few predictions of my own. By Todd Bennett, Director, Vertical Market, LexisNexis Health Care

• The Rx For Healthcare Security: 5 Ways To Mitigate Insider Threats

  3/15/2017

  When it comes to data breaches, it’s very possible that the threat comes from within your organization.