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HHS Warns HPH Sector About Abuse of Legitimate Software and Security Tools by Threat Actors

HIPAA Journal

Recently, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a white paper warning the healthcare and public health sector (HPH) about these living-off-the-land techniques to raise awareness of the threat and explain the risks of using certain tools.

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EMPI/MPI: An End-to-End Approach to Patient Data Integrity

HIT Consultant

In its white paper “ A Realistic Approach to Achieving a 1% Duplicate Record Error Rate ,” AHIMA notes that duplicate patient records lead to misidentification errors and administrative inefficiencies. In addition, missing data within the record can reduce contact tracing, vaccination, and public health reporting.

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