HIPAA & Healthcare IT

Understanding telehealth HIPAA requirements 2026 is no longer optional for any clinic offering virtual care. The pandemic-era flexibility that let providers use FaceTime, Skype, and

Small medical practice cybersecurity mistakes rarely come from carelessness. They come from busy clinicians and administrators doing their best without a security team, an IT

Most practices we assess have backups. Far fewer have a disaster recovery checklist medical clinic staff could actually follow at 6 a.m. on a Monday with the

Most clinics treat the portal as the vendor’s problem. That assumption drives nearly every patient portal security HIPAA gap we find during assessments. Your electronic health record vendor built

The ransomware cost medical practice owners face rarely matches the number in the ransom note. That number is the opening bid, not the invoice. By

Clinics work hard to secure laptops and servers, then plug in a connected infusion pump, imaging system, or vitals monitor that no one is watching. That blind spot

The right IT partner keeps your practice running, compliant, and secure. The wrong one leaves you exposed to downtime, breaches, and HIPAA penalties you did

Ask most practice owners what an hour of EHR downtime costs, and they will guess low. The true EHR downtime cost clinic operators face reaches

Community health organizations carry a double burden that most healthcare providers never face. They must protect sensitive patient data under HIPAA, yet they run on

The HIPAA Security Rule is heading for its first major update since 2003. In December 2024, HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Notice