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HEALTHCARE ORGS NOT SETTING UP PAYMENT SYSTEMS PROPERLY
- Hospitals and other healthcare organizations are not doing enough to position themselves to handle payments from individuals with unpaid debts, according to a published report. Payment systems that are not integrated with the proper billing systems, or that are too integrated with patient records systems both create their own set of problems. Healthcare organizations are not focusing on the user experience when it comes to bill payment, and that will be a large problem going forward as more individuals are expected to have unpaid medical bills.
HACKERS GOING LOW-TECH AGAINST SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES
- Small and medium-sized enterprises are becoming more likely targets of cyber attacks and the attacks are actually getting less sophisticated as hackers look for low-hanging fruit — companies with no or barely any cyber security prevention. There were 5 million attacks against small and medium-sized businesses last year, according to one cybersecurity firm.
FUTURE OF TCPA REMAINS CLOUDY AS INDUSTRY HOPES FOR CHANGE
- Whither the Telephone Consumer Protection Act? That is the question circling the ARM industry these days, as it awaits a ruling on a lawsuit filed by ACA International against the Federal Communications Commission and awaits whether the FCC will decide to do anything with the TCPA now that a Republican is in charge of the agency — and the White House — and the rallying cry has been to try and roll back consumer protections. A pair of lawyers try to read the tea leaves at the FCC, the White House, and the Supreme Court to gauge what could possibly happen to the law in the coming months.
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