Health IT Professionals Push Multifaceted Telehealth Security Approach

Approaches to protecting telehealth patients’ privacy and security must consider multiple factors, health information management professionals wrote in an article this week, including awareness of patients’ physical surroundings along with cybersecurity and operational risks. The article, titled “ Solutions for Challenges in Telehealth Privacy and Security ,” was published Monday (Oct. 17) in the Journal of AHIMA , the official publication of the American Health Information Management Association, by AHIMA fellows Shannon Houser, Cathy Flite and Susan Foster. The authors...