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How WedMD Is Helping Providers Stay Compliant When Using Web Tracking Tools

WebMD Ignite — the company’s division that offers tech solutions to providers and health plans — teamed up with healthcare privacy platform Freshpaint. Through the partnership, WebMD Ignite is seeking to help its customers — which include organizations such as Providence, Trinity Health, Advocate Aurora, VillageMD and Centene — use web tracking technology to grow their businesses while staying clear of data privacy risks.

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6 Ways Providers Can Better Manage 3rd-Party Cybersecurity Risks

The Health3PT Initiative recently released recommendations on how providers can better address the cybersecurity risks linked to their third party reliance. Some of the group’s recommendations included ensuring that contract language ties financial terms to a vendor’s data management transparency and establishing metrics and reporting requirements for organization-wide vendor risks.

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How Can Providers Avoid Data Breaches?

To prevent the proliferation of data security incidents in the healthcare industry, providers must examine their use of legacy systems as well as their reliance on third parties, according to a new report. It pointed out that most providers fail to probe their third-party partners' cybersecurity measures, and many continue to use legacy systems that are no longer supported by vendors or are hard to patch and update.

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1,000+ Facilities Impacted by HCA Data Breach

HCA Healthcare recently suffered a data breach affecting 1,038 hospitals and physician clinics across 20 states. The health system said hackers stole data from an external data storage location "exclusively used to automate the formatting of email messages." It also said that the incident has not caused any disruption to HCA's daily operations or the services it provides to patients.