Diagnosis & Disease Information

Many organizations adopt overly conservative policies that restrict otherwise completely legal uses of health care data.

Among other considerations, health care providers must avoid giving individual medical advice.

Bluetooth is potentially susceptible to attack because it allows different devices to communicate over the air, according to a cybersecurity expert.

Core provisions of the HIPAA legislation have largely remained unchanged since their inception despite rapid evolution of technology to keep protected health information from hackers.

To accommodate patients remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, practices may have expanded personnel access to protected health information and relied on devices that might be vulnerable to cyber attacks.