John Schieszer, MA

In 2022, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Centers received 800,944 complaints about cyber incidents.

Telehealth has the potential to make health care equitable and accessible to almost 90% of US adults, thanks to the use of smartphones. Source: Getty Images

Annual pay, growth potential, and cost of living are among the important considerations of deciding the best place to practice medicine.

In a recent bulletin, the federal Office for Civil Rights suggests steps that practices can take to protect patient data.

Criminals are compromising user login credentials of health care payment processors to divert payments from medical practices to themselves, the FBI warns.

Clinicians need to be aware of their assumptions about patients based on age.

HIPAA protects patients from unauthorized disclosure of personal information by covered entities such as medical practices and hospitals, but out from under the HIPAA umbrella, patients are mostly on their own, according to the authors of a recent report.

The agency has issued proposed draft recommendations to guide incorporation of cybersecurity protections into medical devices at the time of manufacture.

The use of proton beam therapy (PBT) increased between 2004 and 2018, particularly for cancers in which the effectiveness of PBT is still under investigation.

Most cancer patients should receive 3 primary doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and 2 booster doses, according to NCCN.