We’ve talked about how damaging a ransomware attack can be in healthcare, not only for the practice or health facility but also for patients and the integrity and availability of their data. Today, we discuss an active ransomware attack affecting a health system that is not just making the local news, but also is blowing up on social media and creating a number of privacy concerns. The implications for their patients is terrifying.
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We’ve all seen the websites of companies that claim to have a “HIPAA compliant” app, product or service. But does that really mean anything? The short answer is NO! There is no such thing. Today, we answer a listener question about products and services with these types of claims. And, as you can imagine, we have a lot to say about this topic.
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We talk about patching pretty frequently on the podcast, but there is still a misconception that your IT or MSP team is patching everything. Systems are not designed to patch all hardware and software all of the time. There is a level of responsibility that falls on us to understand what is being patched by IT, what isn’t and what we do about those unpatched applications.
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Basic Cyber Hygiene is a fairly new term, but I realized we have mentioned it several times over the last few weeks. What do we really intend people to see when we talk about it? That may be helpful if we think it would solve most of our cyber attack problems, huh.
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Hard to believe that this is our official 300th episode! We are still a tiny podcast in a huge sea but we are pretty sure you can not find a longer running podcast about HIPAA Privacy and Security. To celebrate we have some very special guests, Dave Bittner and Ben Yellen from the CyberWire Caveat podcast. They are joining us for a discussion about where we all see things going in the future for data privacy laws and cybersecurity protections.
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Each year the National HIPAA Summit 2021 is a regular event for us. It was held last year just before the shutdown. The event this year was loaded with discussions about what had happened in the previous 12 months and the massive list of things happening in the next 12 months. That is A LOT of HIPAA! Today we cover part 2 of news of note from the conference.
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If you are a regular listener of the podcast, you know how Donna loves to “HIPAA-geek out” over the HIPAA Summit each year. Things are no different this year as the virtual conference stretched 3 full days and another half day. Needless to say Donna got TONS of information to share - so much so we won’t be able to fit it all in this one podcast. So, let’s get to Part 1 of the HIPAA Summit 2021.
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