Give Thanks for These Payment Security Accomplishments

November is a time to reflect and give thanks for all the good things in our lives. As a security officer, I am additionally thankful for accomplishments in the field of security and compliance that help us better protect payment data and prevent data breaches in healthcare. Around this time four years ago, we were not so thankful for the massive breach that affected Target stores and compromised the credit and debit card information of 110 million consumers – right

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Ransomware in Healthcare: What You Need to Know

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As the healthcare industry experienced the second year of COVID-19, healthcare organizations found themselves navigating new COVID-19 cases as well as new risks from cyberattacks.

According to IBM’s recently released Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021, costs associated with healthcare data breaches increased 29.5% in 2021 to over $9 million. Such attacks not only put sensitive patient and payment data in harm’s way but

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And the Award Goes to…Healthcare Payments Innovators!

The major award shows you watch on TV have very little to do with healthcare payments, but that shouldn’t mean great innovators in the healthcare industry should go unrecognized for their achievements. That’s why we’ve decided to acknowledge the following healthcare organizations for going above and beyond in their efforts to attain healthcare payments excellence. We assure you, we haven’t accidentally announced “La La Land” in place of any of the real winners.

The Award for Most Innovative Digital Wallet Offering

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A Look Ahead at Healthcare Payment Innovations in 2017

At InstaMed, we’re proud of the innovations we delivered in 2016 that helped providers and payers collect and manage payments more efficiently and helped improve the consumer experience. At the start of a new year, we want to look at how the challenges facing providers, payers and consumers have changed or evolved, and how we can continue to improve and do more to answer the needs of our customers for simplifying healthcare payments.

Provider and payer organizations are becoming more complex

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InstaMed’s PCI P2PE Validated Solution

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P2PE (point-to-point encryption) is a methodology for securing credit card data by encrypting it from the time a card is swiped or keyed until it reaches a secure endpoint (InstaMed) where it is decrypted.

InstaMed’s Healthcare Payments P2PE

InstaMed customers that collect card payments with P2PE reduce their PCI compliance programs and leverage the highest levels of security and compliance possible.

Only solutions listed on the PCI SSC

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What Healthcare CIOs Need to Know: An Interview With InstaMed’s Security Experts

With Jeff Lin, Senior Vice President of Product Management; Chris Seib, CTO; Mark Krapels, COO; and Noah Dermer, Security Officer

Security is always top of mind at InstaMed. Since day one, we’ve been committed to delivering the most secure and compliant healthcare payments experience in the industry, and we continue to uphold our reputation as healthcare’s most trusted payments network.

As head of the product team, I work closely with our security team as we develop new products and enhancements for InstaMed

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What Does it Mean to Offer a PCI-Validated P2PE Solution?

Guest blogger: Tim Winston CISSP, CISA, QSA (P2PE)

Many payment vendors claim to offer P2PE (point-to-point encryption) solutions but are not actually PCI-validated. What does it mean to offer a PCI-Validated P2PE Solution Provider? Tim Winston from Coalfire, a PCI SSC Qualified Security Assessor Company, answers some of the most frequently asked questions about P2PE solutions.

What is a QSA (P2PE)?

A QSA (Qualified Security Assessor) Company is recognized by the PCI Council as a qualified assessor of an organization’s adherence to PCI

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