Leader to Leader Featuring Mac McMillan, President and CEO, CynergisTek, Inc.
In this episode, Russ talks with Mac McMillan about his recent return to helm CynergisTek as President and CEO once again. McMillan draws on his years of experience in the military, in government and as a cybersecurity expert to lay out his three principles for leadership: Mission, Service, and Integrity. He highlights the crucial need… read more
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Leader to Leader Featuring Carter Groome, CHISL, CFCHE, CEO of First Health Advisory
In this podcast, Carter Groome talks with Russ about the crucial need for action on cybersecurity both from the private sector and in public policy. Groome reveals why he strongly advocates for government incentives to increase cyber resilience in healthcare, the most critical component of our national infrastructure. Find out why medical devices present peculiar… read more
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A Conversation with Scott MacLean, CHCIO, FCHIME, SVP and CIO, MedStar Health
In this episode, Scott MacLean talks with Russ about how his work on the streets of Baltimore with a nonprofit gives him valuable insight on social factors impacting health. Learn more about MacLean’s 7 areas of focus for strong leadership, as well as his work with CHIME Public Policy on issues like cybersecurity and interoperability…. read more
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Managing Digital Identities During and After a Pandemic: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift in digital healthcare from its traditional boundaries of hospitals and other healthcare facilities to a new frontier that now includes employees’ home offices and patients’ residences. Clinicians, often serving in multiple roles, can access multiple devices from multiple locations, making the management of their digital identities exponentially more complex at a time when the security threat has never been greater. Using the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) “Framework for CISOs to Manage Identity” as a foundation, Imprivata offers a digital identity platform to help healthcare executives and their organizations navigate this challenging environment.
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Q&A with Dan Bowden and Carter Groome on the new Introduction to Cybersecurity Course
Listen to a Q&A with Dan Bowden and Carter Groom as they discuss the new cybersecurity course on Ignite. Learn more about the course and listen to the audio. https://chimecentral.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Cybersecurity.mp3
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Enlisting Key Stakeholders in Cybersecurity Strategy: It’s a Team Effort
Healthcare is the highest targeted sector in direct relation to cybersecurity. Cybersecurity attacks have the capability to bring productivity and operations to a complete stand still within any industry.
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Alert and Alarm Fatigue: It’s Not Just For Clinicians Any More
I’d like to say that we are lucky now that we have all adopted EHRs and used them to drive better, faster, cheaper, safer, easier-to-access care for patients and families. But based on my post-Meaningful Use experience, “luck” is one of the last words used by doctors, nurses, and other frontline caregivers. The EHR came… read more
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Healthcare Cybersecurity Priorities in 2020
The time has come for a strategic transition in our approach to cybersecurity.
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Potential Iranian Cyber Attacks
Cybersecurity Has Changed Forever Does the Iranian Threat of Cyber Retaliation Change the Way We Need to Think and Prepare for Attacks? The U.S. strike that killed Qassem Soleimani could have a dramatic impact on how we prepare for and respond to cyberattacks in the United States as Iranian cyber actors have significant experience in… read more
Learn moreIt’s No Coincidence That Halloween Falls in National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM)
I don’t imagine I’m the first to figure that out, but I think it’s a mistake. It’s easy to jump to scary stuff and tricks or treats and draw clever or cute analogies to cybersecurity and Halloween.
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Biomedical Device Security: The Risk is More than Security
In this podcast, David Finn shares why technical vulnerabilities and risk to medical devices are so important and the risks we aim to address from the core business of healthcare to security for the sake of security.
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Protecting Your Hospital from Cybersecurity Risks
One day in May in 2017, a Spanish telecommunications company reported a cyber incident. About the same time, many miles away in the U.K., the WannaCry virus had spread to a computer belonging to the National Health Service (NHS) and began exploiting their file-sharing network.
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