A third-party vendor that provides mobile imaging services is hacked, leading to breaches for at least three rural health care systems.
Compliance and prevention are not expensive or difficult, and are far less painful than a big settlement payment.
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Invest in prevention, compliance and cybersecurity to avoid the soaring costs of a healthcare data breach.
Use of website tracking technologies in healthcare is perilous because private lawsuits and regulators are moving to stop it.
Embracing the enormous potential AI brings to improving patient outcomes requires policies that secure patient privacy.
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