Hospitals Fined $1 Million After TV Crews Film Patients

CynergisTek's Privacy team joins us this week to discuss user access monitoring and chat about patient user access challenges.

Marti Arvin, CTEK Executive Advisor is back to discuss the information blocking rule with the compliance effective date of April 5th, 2021 just around the corner.

Mac McMillan and David Finn join us to discuss the amendment to H.R 7898, the HITECH Act.

WIth security and privacy integration risks in mergers and acquisitions, knowing the right questions to ask and understanding the answers being provided could be the key to making the deal happen.

Caleb Barlow provides commentary on The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control warning companies that they could be fined for paying or facilitating ransom payments to cyber-criminal gangs.

Caleb Barlow discusses the recent ransomware attack on Equinix infrastructure disclosed earlier this month. Equinix stated it has been fully contained, with no customers affected and no data loss.

Marti Arvin offers commentary for this article which focuses on the recent announcement from federal prosecutors who have agreed to pay $500,000 to settle the 2015 HITECH fraud case.

The below infographic depicts the results of survey findings and links to additional telehealth pointers for both patients and providers from a survey conducted in June of 2020.

This infographic describes important telehealth safety tips providers need to consider before offering telehealth services.

Our infographic describes important Telehealth safety questions patients need to ask their provider before a telehealth appointment.

David Finn contributes to this article where he discusses benevolent bots and building security and privacy into the design process for software vendors.

Marti Arvin, Executive Advisor at CynergisTek, offered commentary for this article, which discusses the recent HIPAA fine on Agape Health Services, a N.C.-based federally qualified health center.

Marti Arvin discusses California’s newly enforced controversial digital privacy law – despite a call for a delay due to the pandemic and a lack of readiness by many companies.