Healthcare Data Breach Statistics show 40 Million Patients were affected in 2019
Data breaches – this topic has been covered a lot here. That’s because it is so prevalent and is constantly haunting big and small healthcare providers across the U.S. In 2019, a whopping 40 million...
View ArticleMedical Identity Theft Cases can hamper Telehealth – How are you Identifying...
COVID-19 has been one of the most impactful events in recent years. While some parts of the world are preparing to reopen or are easing lockdowns in phases, the general population is still on edge as...
View Article5 Strategies to Ensure Revenue Integrity in Healthcare
Many healthcare providers were struggling financially before the pandemic. But now, the U.S healthcare industry is on the verge of financial disaster. According to the American Hospital Association,...
View ArticleIdentify Patients Correctly to Reduce Significant Healthcare Costs
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the whole world off-balance, and even though the world is opening up in places, it is still continuing to affect lives on a daily basis. Amidst all the chaos,...
View ArticlePatient Identity Management is More Important Than Ever – Are you Doing it...
Patient identity management, to put it very simply, refers to how patients are being identified in hospitals. However, anyone who knows the US healthcare system is familiar with the fact that it is...
View ArticlePatient Identification in Hospitals is in Dire Need of an Upgrade After COVID-19
COVID-19 has changed the world around us in unprecedented ways. In fact, it is still shaping how we will interact with each other in the future for years to come. Social distancing, ensuring proper...
View ArticleInfection Control in Hospitals – How it Should be Addressed as Hospitals Reopen
COVID-19, “the novel coronavirus”, “corona” – it goes by a lot of names. Whatever you choose to call it, one thing everyone can certainly agree on is that it is an unprecedented phenomenon that has...
View ArticleHow to Prevent Medical Identity Theft During COVID-19 as Experts Predict...
The world has been drastically changed due to COVID-19 – it seems as if the whole thing was adapted from a sci-fi horror story. While many parts of the world have been opened up with precautions, it...
View ArticleVerifying Patient Identity – Top 3 Benefits
The failure to accurately identify patients throughout the healthcare industry continues to result in medication and diagnosis errors, procedures on the wrong person, duplicate medical records, and...
View Article5 Tips for Preventing Medical Identity Theft in Healthcare
Hospitals, medical centers, and physicians’ offices are not only places where patients should feel safe about getting the right medications, but it should be a place where they also feel safe with...
View ArticleHospitals Might Lose $323 Billion – Reduce Yours by Ensuring Patient Data...
Healthcare around the world has been arguably facing one of its biggest challenges yet, and the US healthcare system is no exception to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. While there are spikes...
View ArticleHow Can Medical Identity Theft Occur During Telehealth Visits?
Telehealth has been around for years, but it has only been growing exponentially for the past few months. One of the biggest propellers that caused the surge in telehealth usage is the coronavirus...
View ArticlePatient Identification Errors in Hospitals Should be Eliminated Now Instead...
Patient identification errors have been haunting the US healthcare system for decades now. In fact, the lack of effective patient identity management within the majority of hospitals and health systems...
View ArticlePatient Data Protection is Ensured by Responsible Healthcare Leaders
Healthcare providers in the US have a lot on their plates. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, they had their hands full with issues like patient identification errors, cybersecurity threats, HIPAA...
View ArticlePatient Identification Policy Impacts Data Integrity and Patient Safety Issues
Let’s face it – patient identification errors are nothing new and it is a much-discussed topic among healthcare leaders. For instance, just a month ago, a new coalition was formed to urge Congress to...
View ArticleA Futureproof Patient Identification Protocol Can Help Mitigate Providers’...
COVID-19 has been one of the biggest catastrophes to hit the world in modern times. There is literally no aspect of our lives it didn’t affect. Unfortunately, it will continue to affect us – experts...
View ArticleProviders Must Protect Patient Information to Enhance Patient Trust
The US healthcare system has always been the one attracting attention for all the wrong reasons – it is inundated with a plethora of issues. Lack of price transparency, interoperability issues, lack of...
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