As technology continues to transform the dental industry, practices have become more reliant on digital platforms for tasks like scheduling appointments, maintaining patient records, and processing payments. While these advancements have streamlined operations, they have also opened the door to potential cyber threats, making cybersecurity awareness an integral aspect of every dental practice.
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As dental practices increasingly rely on technology to manage patient records, appointments, and billing, they also become more susceptible to cyber attacks.
Keeping information safe and secure has been challenging for businesses of all sizes over the last few years. Dental and medical practices have these challenges, as well as growing compliance and insurance mandates.
Dentists are leaders in digital transformation. They were early adopters of technology, using it to efficiently grow their practices. They gained better diagnostics, more treatment planning capacities, a slicker booking process, and better patient management and patient experience, ultimately making it easier to be competitive and profitable.
Today more than ever, the bad guys are winning. Your employees are being challenged, especially via email, and those team members can be liabilities to the safety of your business data. Read More.
When building the budget for your healthcare practice, you may be tempted to look for areas where you can cut corners.
You might think of Cybersecurity as somewhere you can scrimp and save a little because “it’s not likely to affect me” or “it won’t be visible from the outside if I don’t spend as much in this area”, as opposed to physical security measures, which are much more visible in the forms of security cameras and alarm systems.
When you think of data security breaches, what comes to mind?
Probably breaches for major retail stores, such as the one which plagued TJX in 2007.
Or perhaps one of many times Yahoo’s email services were hacked,
There are countless other examples, which just goes to show the fact that data breaches – whether due to poor security protocols or persistent hackers – are on the rise.
As a dental care provider who is likely keeping patient records digitally, this is something you need to be concerned about.
As a provider who keeps records of patients’ personal, private, medical information, you could become a target for cybercriminals.
With the exponential growth in ransomware, cyber insurance is harder to get without having proper security in place for your business.
The pandemic showed us that you CAN do much more than you think…even your own IT.
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