Best Practice Cybersecurity Methods for Remote Care, Patient Portals

The increased use of remote work and telehealth in light of the Coronavirus is also adding to the challenge of securing the healthcare threat landscape. Without proper encryption methods, login redundancies and detection tools, portals are almost as easily accessible to hackers as they are to authorized users. As their usage grows, that lack of security will become an exponentially greater threat to patients’ PHI and identities.

Providers can’t lower the value of PHI to make it less attractive to hackers, but they can protect it more effectively with up-to-date cybersecurity measures. Here are five ways organizations can bring their patient portal security up-to-date and keep their networks safe from unauthorized access.