The Biggest Threat to Your Medical Practice

The "old fashioned way" no longer works. Most firms still operate health plans the old fashioned way without connecting the dots between plan data and predictable health risk exposures - even though studies show that over 70 percent of costly illnesses are predictable. Under the old fashioned scenario, plans are still administrated without the benefit of leading edge technology that easily measures and manages workforce health risk that is based on member engagement and automation.

Consumers in healthcare are often forced to make healthcare decisions in an information vacuum. The information asymmetry in healthcare between patients and medical practitioners often translates to undue stress on patients, increased healthcare costs, and increased treatment complication and readmission rates. In this presentation, Grace Park, Co-founder and President of DocDoc will discuss how to build a patient-centric ecosystem that enables patients to find the right care at the right time.

Like many health plans, engaging and activating vulnerable populations at scale is critical to Home State Health. Tailored conversations through text messaging between the health plan and the individual improves member engagement, which leads to improved quality measures and health outcomes. Advances in Conversational AI enable Home State Health to deliver meaningful dialogue that address multiple topics, incorporate Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and drive member action.

With the extensive network systems found in the healthcare industry, SSH keys are widely used to provide privileged administrative access and to secure machine-to-machine automation for important business functions. However, SSH keys are routinely untracked, unmanaged and unmonitored. This lack of visibility and control can create HIPAA violations by not adequately restricting access to Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI). If SSH keys are not surely managed, the organization does not know who has access. In this session, we’ll examine SSH study results that reveal widespread lack of security controls for SSH keys in the healthcare industry. We’ll discuss the common mistakes that almost all healthcare organizations make around security, policy, and auditing practices when managing SSH keys.