5 Threats and 10 Protection Practices - Ep 189

The Cybersecurity Act of 2015 (CSA) called for adapting our critical infrastructure to better handle cybersecurity issues using private and public partnerships.  Section 405(d) of CSA calls for “Aligning Health Care Industry Security Approaches.”  A task force has been working on doing that since May 2017.  On December 28, 2018, they published the information we have been excited to see in their document Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients (HICP).  Let’s review this important information, shall we?

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Privacy Day and Other News You Need - Ep 188

Let’s be #PrivacyAware in today’s episode.  Privacy Day has been around for a while. It is “international effort to empower individuals and business to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust”.  At HMWH, we are all about trust here and certainly aim to empower those who are willing to respect privacy.

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Passwords are a necessary evil - Ep 187

Passwords are a necessary evil in our online and digital world.  There are lots of tools out there that help us deal with them but you have to use them every day in some way unless you are completed unsecured or off the grid.  LastPass recently released an interesting report about the use of passwords. Let’s see what new trouble we can find in these details about our daily password battle and discuss some options we have found for dealing with them.

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7 Predictions for 2019 - Ep 186

Today we cover the things we are keeping an eye on for 2019.  Yes, it is 2019, I can not believe how quickly we have gone through almost 2 decades of the 21st century. Our top 7 predictions for 2019 may not surprise you.  But, that shouldn't stop us from throwing them out there.

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Are HIPAA changes coming? - Ep 185

In case you have missed it there have been several headlines about HIPAA changes in the last month.  What is that all about and what should you worry about? Today we are discussing if HIPAA changes are will be coming this year.  Even better we will tell you what we plan to do with the information.

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