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2. Assess risk management plans to make sure that measures to reduce vulnerabilities identified. Adopt
the best practices used in healthcare. It’s a must to use unique IDs, strong passwords, role-based
permissions, auto time-out and screen lock.

3. Compare HIPAA and other cyber-related policies and procedures against legal and regulatory
obligations, and ensure they are updated based on the results of your most recent risk analysis.

4. Expect the unexpected. Prepare safety incident response plans that meet HIPAA requirements and
other applicable laws for your business to be ready to respond to a possible data breach. Besides, leave
some room in your strategy for the unexpected. This could include everything from hacker attacks to
natural disasters, threatening your healthcare records, and other vital assets.

5. Create backups and develop a recovery plan. While creating backups seems like a common-sense
thing, it can be missed in a small practice environment. Ensure that the medium used to store your backup
data is safe and cannot be wiped out by an attack that would take down your office systems.

6. Make additional investments in people, processes, technology, and management. Defending digital
assets can no longer be delegated solely to the IT staff. Instead, security planning needs to be blended
into new product and service, security, development plans, and business initiatives.

You can't afford to neglect cyber security or compliance. That is why it is critical to match them together
in a secure network that protects your patients and your reputation.

About the Author

From 2017 as a CTO at Zfort Group, Andrew Mikhailov concentrates on
growing the company into the areas of modern technologies like Artificial
Intelligence, BigData, and IoT. Being a CTO, Andrew doesn’t give up
programming himself because it is critical for some of the projects Andrew
curates as a CTO.

Andrew LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-mikhailov-
66571912/

Contact Andrew: [email protected]

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