Thursday, April 26, 2018

Physicians and Security Officers - Ep 151


The American Medical Association (AMA) did a survey of physicians and their thoughts about privacy and security practices. It was interesting to hear their responses. Also, when a group of Security Officers gets together for a chat some people glaze over.  For nerds like us, it is an exciting discussion. Today we are going to discuss the Security Officer panel topics and the AMA report presentation from the National HIPAA Summit.

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Thursday, April 19, 2018

Ready for extreme vendor vetting? - Ep 150


Are you ready for extreme vendor vetting? Many vendors have been pushing back against any covered entity or business associate that asked them to answer questions about their privacy and security programs. They believe signing a business associate agreement (BAA) meets the legal requirements and that is all they must do. Well, the times they are a changing - again.  There are many different factors making it necessary to ask these type questions and not just accept a BAA as reasonable assurances. What are those factors and how things are changing are the topics we discuss in this episode.

 

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Thursday, April 12, 2018

National HIPAA Summit News - Ep 149


The National HIPAA Summit always features some interesting news from OCR concerning guidance, enforcement, and audits.  This year was no different. In this episode, we discuss the highlights as we interpreted them anyway.

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Thursday, April 5, 2018

Cyberscary Trends - Ep 148


Cybersecurity trends sound scary when you hear us talk about some of this stuff.  Cyberscary is actually what we decided to call it.  The good news is we do talk about other things sometimes. There are two reports that came out in recent weeks have gotten my attention and just have to be discussed with you guys.

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Cybersecurity And The Law - Ep 147


Cybersecurity legal requirements keep changing at the state, federal, and international level.  Most of the changes are just trying to keep up with the constantly changing landscape of threats in cyberspace. Today we call in an expert, Mitzi Hill, to talk to us about those cybersecurity legal requirements.  How those changes may impact your business and your privacy and security program is certainly something we don’t want to lose track of in the mix.

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Thursday, March 22, 2018

6 Listener Questions - Ep 146


We get questions from listeners on a pretty regular basis.  When they come in from an email we do our best to reply with an answer.  Sometimes they get backed up for us to get them on the show, however. Today we are covering some of those, in fact, we are covering 6 listener questions.

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Thursday, March 15, 2018

Uber Health HIPAA - Ep 145


News abounds about Uber and other ride-sharing services taking people to their doctor appointments.  They say they have it covered and Uber Health HIPAA compliance is solid. Today we look at what they are saying about HIPAA here and what that means to us.

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