Curbing Inherent Bias When Caring for Patients
Bias extends beyond skin color to the assumptions physicians might make about patients.
Bias extends beyond skin color to the assumptions physicians might make about patients.
To accommodate patients remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, practices may have expanded personnel access to protected health information and relied on devices that might be vulnerable to cyber attacks.
NRC Health, a software and patient satisfaction survey provider holding data from more than 25 million patients, was locked out of its computer system in February because of a ransomware attack.
By connecting on a personal level, medical practices may have better results in getting patients to settle their accounts.
Regardless of the challenges a smaller group might have, a risk assessment is a baseline for any HIPAA program. The cost of this assessment is considerably less than a HIPAA fine.
Putting information in the cloud can be a good move for a physician’s practice — but only if done well.
Hackers have penetrated healthcare providers’ computer systems to encrypt information and demand money for its release.