Paubox Weekly: Q1 Healthcare Cybersecurity Recap of major events, initiatives, and trends

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1. Q1 Cybersecurity Recap: Major events, initiatives, and trends

We are a quarter through the year, and it’s proving to be an eventful one for healthcare organizations everywhere.

Looking ahead:

• The Change Healthcare attack could signal a shift in future policy or response measures.
• The HHS recently delivered an annual report on HIPAA compliance and breaches.
• A Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) report described value-based care programs as helping improve care at a lower cost. CMS needs help attracting practices to the payment model.

What’s happened so far and what we can expect next.

2. All about patient experience - HMPS24

The Paubox team is in Las Vegas for the 29th Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit hosted by The Forum for Healthcare Strategists.

The event: The Summit focuses on strategic marketing, communication strategy, patient engagement, and topics related to healthcare business growth and sales.

Why it matters: Our mission is to become the market leader for HIPAA compliant communication.

It's all about personalized communication

3. Report: 33 percent of healthcare websites still use pixel tracking

LOKKER, a technology service provider, recently reported that many organizations still use pixels to collect and track data.

What happened: They also found 33% of healthcare companies use the Meta pixel on their websites despite significant pressure from the government, mounting lawsuits, and breaches. 

Nearly 2% of all companies shared data directly with Russia or China

4. Paubox customers: Paubox Zoom social mixer (April 2024)

The social mixer was a roundtable discussion covering ChatGPT and HIPAA, new cybersecurity threats, the impact of inflation on margins, and DLP best practices. 

Our takeaways:

• IT departments will have to monitor how employees are using ChatGPT
• Paubox customers see a massive jump of bad emails blocked after using Geofencing
  
• 54% of CISOs struggle to convince the board to prioritize cybersecurity investments

Decryption tools in case of an attack

5. Report: HHS office may have put data at risk

The HHS OIG says the Administration for Children and Families stored data in an at-risk cloud system.

Going deeper: Findings indicated that security control of access enforcement and information input validation were both at critical levels of vulnerability. Many other security components were at a high or medium level of vulnerability.

A “high risk of compromise.”

Community links

• Behavioral health and AI - NatCon24. Link
• Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta sued for allegedly sharing patient data with Facebook. Link
• FTC fines Cerebral $7.1 million for privacy violations and deceptive practices. Link
• Medicare data exposed in data breach at Boston consulting firm. Link
• Features to look for in a HIPAA compliant email service provider. Link
• Using HIPAA compliant emails for home healthcare. Link
• Infostealers: A rising malware threat in the healthcare industry. Link
• When is a non-healthcare company a covered entity? Link
• What is pharming? Link
• Are automated responses HIPAA compliant? Link

Good reads from around the web

• Administration officials discuss cybersecurity threats affecting hospitals. Link
• Cybersecurity investigators worry ransomware attacks may worsen as young, Western hackers work with Russians. Link
• Lawmakers target mergers in first hearing on Change Healthcare hack. Link
• Driving healthcare growth with a consumer-led strategy. Link
• 6 strategies to support healthcare professionals' mental health. Link

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