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A Process of User-Centered Design to Create a Social Determinants of Health Data Platform

Danequa Forrest, PhD, Jeremy Pyne, MPA, Laura McKieran, DrPH, Cristina E. Martinez, PhD(c), MPH

A model of user-centered design, including community input, is tested to increase the accessibility and use of health and social determinants of health data.

By Diane Dolezel, PhD, MSCS, RHIA, CHDA; Barbara Hewitt, PhD

This study seeks to identify factors that encourage individuals to continue the intention of using telehealth. The authors extended the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) by examining constructs that could identify reasons individuals plan to continue using telehealth including security and...
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Privacy and Security Risk Factors Related to Telehealth Services – A Systematic Review

By Shannon H. Houser, Ph.D., MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA; Cathy A. Flite, Ph.D., RHIA, FAHIMA; and Susan L. Foster, EdD, MBA, RHIA, CHPS, CHC, CHPC, CIPP/US, FAHIMA

The objective of the study is to identify challenges and associated factors for privacy and security related to telehealth visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The systematic search strategy used the databases of PubMed, ScienceDirect, ProQuest, Embase, CINAHL, and Cochrane, with the search...
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Healthcare Breaches During COVID-19: The Effect of the Healthcare Entity Type on the Number of Impacted Individuals

By Martin Ignatovski, PhD

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in cybersecurity attacks on organizations operating in the healthcare industry. Health information professionals and health executives are unable to limit the impact of data breaches on records their organizations handle. While current research...
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Securing Your Radiology Practice: Evidence-Based Strategies for Radiologists Compiled From 10 Years of Cyberattacks and HIPAA Breaches Involving Medical Imaging

Gerald M. Bowers, MHA; Mary L. Kleinpeter, MA; and William T. Rials, PhD

While there is significant literature discussing physical and cybersecurity risks around health information technology in general, the number of publications that specifically address medical imaging is much smaller, and many of these focus on the technical security requirements for the exchange...
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Human Factors in Electronic Health Records Cybersecurity Breach: An Exploratory Analysis

By Liu Hua Yeo, MS, and James Banfield, PhD

The healthcare sector continues to be the industry suffering one of the highest costs of a data security breach. Healthcare lags behind other industries in cybersecurity preparedness despite advances in cybersecurity technologies. Technical safeguards to protect electronic health records must be...
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