Cybersecurity guidance for small businesses and healthcare practices, covering compliance risks, data protection, and real-world security threats.
Most practice owners already know the front desk shares a login. It is not a secret and nobody is proud of it. The question that never gets a straight answer is what fixing it actually involves, because the last person who brought it up made it sound like a project that would shut the office […]
Individual Logins for Medical Practice Staff: What It Actually Takes Read More »
Walk into most small medical practices and you will find tablets in the exam rooms. Staff use them all day. They hold a login to the EHR, they sit on the practice WiFi, and nobody can tell you how many there are. Mobile device management for medical practices is the part of the setup that
Mobile Device Management for Medical Practices: The Tablets Nobody Owns Read More »
If you run a small medical or dental practice, the emails about the 2026 HIPAA Security Rule keep coming, and most of them are selling urgency. Here is the part they skip: a HIPAA security risk analysis is already required by law, has been for years, and is the single most common gap the government
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The 2026 HIPAA Security Rule is still a proposal. There is no deadline on your calendar, and any vendor implying otherwise is selling urgency that does not exist. What does exist is a federal enforcement campaign that has been settling with practices, including small ones, over a requirement that is already years old. This post
The 90-Day HIPAA Get-Ready Plan for Small Practices Read More »
No, HIPAA does not require MFA and encryption yet. The 2026 Security Rule that would make both mandatory is still proposed, not law, and OCR has not finalized it. But encryption and MFA are where enforcement is already heading, and for most small practices the work is configuration you can finish this month, not a
HIPAA MFA and Encryption: What Small Practices Do Now Read More »
If you run a small medical or dental practice, you have probably gotten a few emails lately warning you that major new HIPAA rules are coming and you need to act right now. Some of that is true. A lot of it is the same fear pitch every IT and compliance vendor sends when they
2026 HIPAA Security Rule: What Small Practices Should Know Read More »
When someone leaves a medical practice, the schedule gets covered and the role gets backfilled. Their access to your systems is usually the one thing that stays exactly where it was. It’s not a dramatic problem. Nothing breaks the day someone walks out the door. There’s no alert and no error message. That’s exactly why
What Happens to IT Access When an Employee Leaves a Medical Practice Read More »
Shared logins healthcare offices still use are one of those things almost everyone knows aren’t ideal, and yet they still exist everywhere. This isn’t usually because anyone is careless or ignoring best practices. In most cases, shared accounts show up for very practical reasons: speed, staffing changes, legacy systems, or workflows that were set up
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Medical Practice Backups: Why “We Have Backups” Isn’t Enough Ask a medical practice whether their medical practice backups are in place and you’ll almost always get the same answer: “Yes, we have backups.” This is especially common when medical practice backups are set up once and never tested again.. What’s far less common is a
Why Most Medical Practices Don’t Know If Their Backups Actually Work Read More »
Most HIPAA Violations Medical Practices Don’t Realize Are Violations Most HIPAA violations medical practices face don’t come from negligence or bad intent. They come from assumptions. “We’re careful.” “We trust our staff.” “We use secure systems.” “We’ve never had a problem.” Unfortunately, HIPAA enforcement doesn’t care about intent. It cares about risk exposure, safeguards, and
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