The value of the HICP guides is really beginning to be realized as we approach the 2nd anniversary of it's release. Erik Decker, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer, University of Chicago Medical Center (and 405d Task Force industry lead and co-chair) was kind enough to join us again to discuss what's coming next for HICP and what he sees in healthcare cybersecurity management as we head into 2021.
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Amazon is rolling out a new “feature” called Sidewalk. If you have any Alexa devices or certain Ring devices on a network we say get off the Sidewalk! At least until you figure out how it can be secured.
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With so much going on this year things that would have been big news are slipping by with little notice. Back in 2016 The 21st Century Cures Act was passed which included a lot of healthcare IT updates to improve patient access to their information. A specific section was all about how to prevent information blocking. What is it, why do you care and when will things happen? That’s the topic today.
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Each year we take the week off on Thanksgiving and share a replay of an episode we want to share. This year it seemed appropriate to share our original predictions for 2020 that we did just before the world turned upside down with a pandemic.
In a few weeks we will evaluate how we did but for now, catch up on how naive we all were just a few months ago.
Just because a story isn’t about healthcare or HIPAA doesn’t mean they don’t offer some important news for folks in healthcare to take note. Marriott and Zoom cybersecurity cases were just in the news. We all need to take note of them and pay close attention to what happened. Oh, and there is a new one in healthcare that does include a vendor.
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Every time we think we get ahead of the current news more things happen! More enforcement news, more ransomware specific warnings, more cyber threats to worry about. Let’s get to it!
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Tamika Bass joins us today to discuss the importance of effective communication skills. We have spent a lot of time discussing that it is everyone’s responsibility to participate in cybersecurity protections. One big issue in making that happen is to have tech teams communicate effectively with non-tech teams. As Tamika says “if there is no understanding then communication didn’t happen”.
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