AHIMA January 4, 2021
Why the pandemic shouldn’t stop providers from focusing on critical security and compliance gaps.
For better and worse, the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted our focus to a new paradigm of remote work and patient care. Healthcare providers and technology companies moved quickly to implement and scale solutions to enable patient care and business operations in a completely new model.
However, even the most up-to-date and comprehensive business continuity plans strained under the rate of change in 2020. In the wake of this unprecedented public health emergency response, strict attentiveness to compliance, security and privacy, and interoperability may not have been as robust as it could have been.
As we begin the new year, it’s time for healthcare organizations and providers...