Paubox Weekly: Paubox customers share tips, tricks, and best practices

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1. Paubox customers share tips, tricks, and best practices (Sept 2023 Zoom social mixer)

Paubox Zoom social mixers allow our customers and prospects to network and learn new trends.

In the know: Much of the conversation revolved around Paubox Data Loss Prevention and effective ways to leverage the various Paubox ExecProtect settings to mitigate phishing scams.

See our top takeaways

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2. Indiana Attorney General files lawsuit against IU Health and IU Healthcare Associates

According to the lawsuit filed in federal court, a patient's privacy and state law were violated after a doctor shared the story of a young rape victim seeking abortion care.

What happened: The lawsuit claims that Dr. Bernard should have obtained a HIPAA compliant authorization signed by the patient or the patient's guardian before discussing the case publicly.

Did IU Health properly investigate the incident?

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3. Judge grants preliminary approval on settlement in Salud Family Health case

In 2022, Salud Family Health Inc. discovered several hundred thousand individuals had gained unauthorized access to protected health information.

What happened: According to a class action suit, the breach resulted in leaked sensitive information, including names, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, medical treatment and diagnosis information, and more.

Salud has agreed to settle the class action case

4. Using AI in patient data analysis

AI can identify patterns, trends, and correlations in patient data that may be challenging for human analysts to detect.

Why it matters: This can lead to more precise and personalized diagnoses and treatment recommendations. AI-driven data analysis has the potential to improve patient outcomes, optimize treatment plans, and advance medical research.

How ensure that AI is used in a HIPAA compliant way

Community links

• Building permission-based healthcare email marketing lists. Link
• How to manage persistent threats and zero day vulnerabilities. Link
• Addressable versus required standards for small practices. Link
• Developing a HIPAA compliant incident response plan for data breaches. Link
• How HIPAA protects disclosures of workers PHI. Link

Good reads from around the web

• Apple rushes to patch 3 new zero-day flaws. Link
• Nearly 500,000 in U.S. will regain health insurance after state errors. Link
• Cisco to acquire Splunk in $28B mega deal. Link
• The US is going to restart its free at-home covid test kit program. Link
• US employers to see biggest healthcare cost jump in a decade in 2024. Link