Neil H. Baum, MD, presented “Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Practice” for the Grand Rounds in Urology audience in October 2020.
How to cite: Baum, Neil H. “Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Practice” October 2020. Accessed Jul 2024. https://grandroundsinurology.com/cybersecurity-protecting-your-practice/
Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Practice – Summary:
GRU Contributing Editor Neil H. Baum, MD, Professor of Urology at Tulane Medical School, discusses the importance of cybersecurity for protecting your urology practice. He explains that it is necessary to protect patients’ data from hacking and phishing so that you do not need to spend large sums of money to buy it back. Most practices, small and large alike, do not have cybersecurity plans in place, and smaller practices in particular are easy targets. The first step in implementing an effective cybersecurity plan is to educate your employees. Dr. Baum also notes how important it is to build a firewall so that you can protect against phishing, and offers some other suggestions on how you can be proactive against it. Finally, he discusses both why your practice needs to have a response plan in place in case the worst does happen and how to go about creating one.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Neil H. Baum, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is also a retired urologic surgeon. Additionally, Dr. Baum serves as the Medical Advisor to Vanguard Communications Group. Dr. Baum is the author of Marketing Your Clinical Practice - Ethically, Effectively, and Economically, which is in its 4th edition, has sold over 175,000 copies, and has been translated into Spanish. He also wrote The Complete Business Guide to a Successful Medical Practice, which was published in 2015. Dr. Baum was the columnist for American Medical News for more than 25 years. Dr. Baum also wrote the popular column, “The Bottom Line,” for Urology Times for more than 20 years. He is a requested speaker each year to the Practice Management Seminar for the American Urological Association (AUA), where he discusses techniques for making urology practices more efficient and more productive. He has written more than 9 books on practice management and over 250 peer-reviewed articles on various urologic topics. Dr. Baum is also the medical advisor to Vanguard Communications Group.
