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HIPAA Compliance – How We Make It Happen for Our Clients

PK Tech meets and works with a lot of healthcare practices in Arizona.

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Arizona Medical Practice Completely Loses EHR System in Ransomware Attack

Desert Wells Family Medicine, a local Arizona medical practice, recently permanently lost its electronic health record system (EHR) due to a...

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Ransomware Attack Has Grave Effects Beyond Just Financial Ones

It was recently reported that a cyberattack on an Alabama hospital was linked to the first alleged ransomware death, tragically of a child. The Wall...

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HIPAA Compliance — What Most People Get Wrong and Why Accepting Insurance is a Privilege

The world of HIPAA is a complicated and ever-changing landscape. As qualified technology compliance HIPAA experts (PK Tech owns the Compliancy...

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Another Improper Hard Drive Disposal Leads to 100k Health Record Breach – Here Are Our Takeaways

Recently, personal data was leaked from over 100,000 patients at HealthReach Community Health Centers in Maine. How did this happen? Simple: by...

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New HIPAA Safe Harbor Law Incentivizes Investment in Cybersecurity

In early January, President Trump signed the HIPAA Safe Harbor Bill (HR 7898 ) into law. The HIPAA Safe Harbor law amends the HITECH Act,...

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Bending the Truth on Your Cybersecurity Insurance Application? See How It Cost a Healthcare Provider $4.125 Million.

If you’ve considered bending the truth or “lies by omission” on your cybersecurity application, we strongly encourage you to reconsider. The...

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Ransomware Gang Targets Government, Finance, and Healthcare Organizations

Pysa ransomware, which became the dominant strain behind file-encrypting attacks last November, with a 400% rise in attacks on government...

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55% Increase in Healthcare Breaches in 2020 from Previous Year

Among the many challenges of 2020, healthcare organizations in the U.S. took a big hit on the cybersecurity front. As if the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t...

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Over One-Third of Medical Practices Have Experienced a Medical Breach: Here’s Why

It’s no secret that the healthcare industry has been a long time target for money-hungry cybercriminals. The combination of a large quantity of...

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