Opening the 2020 enforcement list for OCR is a doctor's office who reported a breach due to a business associate issue and then did nothing. The settlement wasn't due to the BA but because the office had no SRA in place. Let's break down the settlement with Steven A. Porter, M.D., P.C. a sole gastroenterologist practice in Ogden, UT. Time to learn from their mistakes.

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Does your SRA include something like COVID-19? Your business continuity plans include it? Do you need an SRA that includes virus outbreaks? Yes, you do. If your risk analysis didn't include these kinds of things you should revisit your method for doing an SRA. What should you do about this risk and what else is missing from your SRA? Let's talk about privacy, security and COVID-19.

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Cybersecurity misconceptions are pretty common both in personal life and business. There are definitely enough cases of misinformation coming through our offices on a regular basis to make it obvious just how confused people can be about what should be done. We have pointed out many times that the government has been releasing information for years to assist both businesses and individuals. You can find a lot of information that is very helpful at StaySafeOnline.org. Today we are going to discuss one directed at SMBs explaining several cybersecurity misconceptions.

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This story has been going around since September 2019. Images exposed on the internet from PACS systems around the world available to anyone that wanted to see them. Images exposed included x-rays, MRI scans and more. It still hasn't been locked down after all these months. That means it's time to talk about it instead of keeping it quiet.

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Another report comes out that says insiders are a huge problem. You have to worry about the people, people. We have been saying this for years. The lastest news on that front is in the 2020 Cost Of Insider Threats Global Report released by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by ObserveIT and IBM. It does tell us a lot of things we already knew but the details including those about how it is growing are important to note.

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Wearables, medical devices and HIPAA are just some of the questions we have gotten recently. Today's episode is privacy and security news plus listener questions.

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Is HIPAA ambiguous? That is the way many people refer to anything that has to do with HIPAA regulations. It comes from doctors, nurses, lawyers, managers, supervisors, even compliance officers. But, is it really the way we should refer to the law? Should we say it is flexible or reasonable instead?

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There have been a lot of headlines lately about Windows 7 end of life and Windows 10 security patches. Let's discuss why supported software and security patching matters in general. Then, we can talk about why it matters under HIPAA.

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We have mentioned ransomware warnings over and over on HMWH. To the point ransomware shows up in a search on 56 different episodes before this one. That means we've talked about ransomware warnings in 24% of our episodes. Guess what - clearly we need to talk about it again!

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As we anticipated there was one more OCR settlement announcement before the end of 2019. This one popped in at the end of December and was yet another one in our backyard. The ambulance company settlement seemed simple at first but once we read the details there is a lot to unpack in the CAP. Let's get to it then!

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