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5 Steps Healthcare Providers Can Take to Protect Their Computer Systems
As the healthcare industry adopts electronic medical records and increasingly relies on technology, providers and facilities face new challenges in protecting patient information and minimizing their exposure to cyber risks. The healthcare industry is the most targeted and the least prepared industry when it comes to cyber attacks. Criminal hacking is now the leading cause Continue Reading »
5 Things to Know When Your Physician Client Needs Stand-Alone Tail Coverage
Maintaining seamless malpractice coverage is a critical issue for all physicians. The evolving health care industry with its consolidations, buyouts and changing delivery models continues to create a need for physicians and physician groups to purchase extended reporting period or “tail” coverage for their current medical malpractice policies. The explosion of hospitalist groups, locum tenens Continue Reading »
Diabetes Epidemic Could “Super Size” the Need for Kidney Dialysis Facilities
Diabetes, specifically type 2 diabetes is growing at an alarming rate according to statistics published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (National Diabetes Statistics, 2011 – National Diabetes Information). The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has described type 2 diabetes as “the new epidemic in the American pediatric population.” There has been a Continue Reading »