Every day it seems we read about more healthcare cyber attacks. As the news keeps breaking with more details on the wide variety of cases, we have plenty of work to do just to keep up. Today, there are so many cases to talk about we couldn't even decide what to call the episode.
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Listen in to outtakes from this year's episodes. We need something lighter to celebrate the holidays!
For a change there was a bipartisan bill passed with some big impacts on healthcare. HIPAA 21st Century Cures Act implications are, of course, our focus. Today, we review some thoughts on the bill that was signed into law this week.
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Recorded during our first live broadcast, this episode covers several OCR announcements. We start with the OCR phishing alert. Followed by that we discuss OCR's guidance that said you should consider multi-factor authentication in your risk analysis.
There have also been more resolution agreements that we haven't covered on an episode so we hit those, as well.
Since it was a live show we also take some questions!
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Phishing attacks in healthcare are on the rise just like every other industry. However, unlike many other targets, phishing attacks in healthcare have a much higher return on investment if the phisherman gets anyone to take the bait. We've talked multiple times how healthcare is now a major target for hackers. Then, it only makes sense that we will see a continued rise in efforts aimed at phishing attacks in healthcare.
