Securing Telehealth in a Vulnerable World
In a season where “normal health services” have been anything but normal, one thing appears clear: telehealth is here to stay. A recent study notes that 46 percent of consumers now use telehealth in place of in-person healthcare visits – as opposed to just 11% in 2019. Primarily used for level-one consults and routine exams,... Continue reading
Timely Healthcare with Secure HIPAA Drive
Good physicians understand: timely treatments promote better health outcomes. It makes sense, doesn’t it? The sooner an effective remedy can be administered, the better. Patient engagement between physician and patient improves, and dangerous and debilitating effects from delayed treatments (such as kidney or heart failure) may also be averted. In the past, some delays were... Continue reading
Password Management: 5 Best Practices for Compliant Environments
Good security habits can sometimes feel like extra work – like when you have to jump out of bed to ensure your doors are locked, two seconds after you’ve clicked off the light. Why do you do it? Because you know the extra effort isn’t too high a price for keeping an intruder out, your... Continue reading
Why the Robots Don’t Love Us
Don’t be part of the 15% When you choose HIPAA Vault’s HIPAA compliant cloud solutions, you make a smart choice for less frustration in your cloud provider. Here’s a major reason why: it means you won’t be part of the 15% in 2021 that Gartner is predicting will jettison their valuable “company-consumer touchpoint” of customer service, and look outside... Continue reading
HIPAA-Secure Telehealth & Email for Therapists
Your patients value your counsel and are willing to share with you their deepest, personal struggles. As a therapist, you take those patient communications seriously, and strive to preserve their dignity and privacy. Voicemails, appointment calendars, therapy notes – you handle them all with discretion and care. It’s part of the sacred trust between therapist... Continue reading
Blockchain Technology and the Future of Healthcare
How a Bitcoin-Inspired Technology is Poised to Change Healthcare 2020 officially goes in the record books as the worst year so far in terms of the number of breaches reported. Can blockchain technology help? Imagine a one-stop-shop of information, tailored to your individual healthcare needs – a WebMD of your own personal data, designed and maintained just for... Continue reading
G Suite is now Google Workspace
Google’s acclaimed suite of collaboration and productivity tools – including Gmail, Drive, Docs, and Meet – recently got a makeover, and a new name: Google Workspace. Before diving into what’s new, customers of HIPAA Vault’s popular HIPAA Gmail will be glad to know they’ll be unaffected by the rebranding of G Suite to Google Workspace; we’ll still require the... Continue reading
Resisting the Latest Wave of Ransomware in Healthcare
What you Must Do Now It’s become the classic “Catch-22” of ransomware: you’re hit with a surprise attack – a rogue wave of ransomware – and find yourself unable to access your patient data or vital systems – “dead in the water.” You know the consequences of not paying the ransom (though law enforcement urges you not... Continue reading