Matt Gilchrist
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The aim is to preserve useful thinking, not republish every old WordPress artefact. Older healthcare, Medicare and compliance material should be checked before operational use.
Some easy steps to HELP protect your health business I am often asked about what practices can do to HELP protect themselves from RansomWare or other hacking attempts. Some really easy to implement ideas include:- #1 Good password policy, strong passwords unknown to others, changed at weird interval
Email Security There are some basic steps to securing personal information when it comes to email. These include Message encryption email transmission encryption email digital signatures Password protected attachments Normal NON-encrypted email Let's say I go to Paris for a holiday and send back a p
GDPR - the new 'General Data Protection Regulation' from the EU. The EU has new legislation that comes into effect on May 25 (yes few days time) that is targeting the international social media companies, but is impacting on all companies, all around the world. Essentially, the legislation tries to
I recently found this article online at itnews.com.au (I haven't read much of their content - but it looks up-to-date and across various issues affecting IT in Australia). This article is about a talk by ADHA chief information security officer Anthony Kitzelmann to the Technology in Government confe
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner last week released a report about their recent review of Privacy Policies in Australian GP practices. The report is here >> https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy-law/assessments/general-practice-clinics-app-1-privacy-policy-assessment Let's look at the
Matt Gilchrist had a registrar write these up once, and has used these case studies in the training of other Registrars. These are all fabricated cases, and are meant to utilise much of the clinical software. Each resultant set of notes should be reviewed for accuracy. Case 1. Mrs Fake Patient, a 30
Just back from yet another fun filled Best Practice Summit, this time at the Sunshine Coast. Again I was privileged to be able to speak at this event. This time I had four sessions. Another wonderful conference from my preferred Clinical Software. The entertainment was absolutely amazing yet again.