Working with patients that have multiple chronic conditions can be challenging. It may mean that the patient has multiple doctors he or she is regularly dependent on—such as a cardiologist to control high blood pressure and a pulmonologist to treat emphysema in addition to a primary care doctor. In that ... Read More

These days it’s trendy to talk about technology as if it were purely a bad thing. After all, we’ve got companies violating our privacy and harvesting our data without being transparent about what they’re doing; tools like personal assistants recording us without our knowledge; and regular breaches that put our ... Read More

Photo: Safe House Project Co-founders Kristi Wells and Brittany Dunn We recently traveled to DC for Safe House Project’s event Freedom Requires Action, a day of action focused on eradicating child sex trafficking in America. Every year, 300,000 American children are trafficked and only 1% get out. Safe House Project ... Read More

The news that Google is amassing huge amounts of patient health data to create a unified platform where healthcare providers can search patients’ individual records has been met with mixed responses. On the one hand, this could ease workflows for healthcare provider, giving them easy access to patients’ records and ... Read More

Jeff Bezos’s phone was hacked by Saudi Arabia last week, thanks to a video containing malicious code. While the situation was pretty specific—Jeff Bezos was targeted because assets through an attack that likely cost millions of dollars –the attack still brings up the evergreen important privacy question. To what extent ... Read More

We’ve always used scanning to share things important to us—both personal and professional. Scanning lets us preserve and share important information and keep documents, photos, and even sites from disappearing. In celebration of Vaporstream’s new scanning capabilities, we dug up some fun facts from scanning history and explored how scanning ... Read More

The new year means the roll out of Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). It’s the biggest change in Medicare’s payment methodology for home healthcare since the home health Prospective Payment System (PPS) was implemented and, like PPS, means that providers have to make significant changes to their operations under the new ... Read More

Last month’s ransomware attack against the Mexican oil firm Pemex showed how the oil industry’s embrace of digital technology has made them a high-value target for hackers. The attack—a strain of ransomware that targets companies with revenues between $500 million and $1 billion—attacked Pemex’s system and brought administrative operations to ... Read More

When we think about threats to data security our minds usually jump to cyberattacks. But the physical threat of someone stealing or losing a device makes sensitive data just as vulnerable. Between 2005 and 2015, a startling 41% of all data breaches were caused by lost devices.This is a very ... Read More

When a ransomware attack hit the state of Louisiana this week, affecting some of the state’s server computers, the government responded by taking its servers down. The move was a pre-emptive one, meant to prevent the ransomware from spreading to other state servers. While the move protected data, it also ... Read More