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The OCR enforcement announcements keep coming. Our reviews of not only the new announcements but news on some of the older ones are the topic for today. Did you know one from 2018 is still being reviewed in the courts while we get new ones already in 2021?

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Always great to talk cybersecurity insurance coverage with John Miller of Sterling Seacrest Partners. Threats are constantly evolving for all of us. That means cyber liability coverage must also evolve.

Have you evaluated what your cyber policy will really cover when you are attacked? There are certainly several areas John brings up for us all to consider in our cybersecurity policies.

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Making annual predictions is always a little bit guessing and a lot of luck by the end of the year. No way any of us could have predicted where we would go throughout the year we just call 2020. Only history will tell us will give us the distance to understand the last 12 months. Who knows where we will go next but what the umm heck. We figured we would do it again.

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A new HIPAA safe harbor rule is out there floating around now. A safe harbor is a legal term that refers to laws and regulations that specify that certain actions will be considered not to violate a given rule. It is often used to clarify big standards like HIPAA. Encryption is one of those things under the breach rules. Do you know about HR 7898?

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A hospital President, after being hit by a cyber attack, said "We really did not anticipate the scope or the impact the attack had on our system and how far-reaching it was."

This is just the beginning. Get prepared for more to come. Especially, with the success of the major SolarWinds infiltration. We knew things were getting worse weeks ago when we recorded this one. Where do we see things going?

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What a year it has been! Say what you will but none of us will EVER forget living through 2020. As we have all adjusted throughout the year we appreciate everyone's continued support of our efforts to educate and entertain.

As is our custom, our editor, Bojan, gets his annual 15 minutes of fame. Enjoy his year end Blooper Show edition that gives us a week off and gives him a chance to get back at us for the whole year of crap.

More data privacy and security madness coming your way next year which is actually next week! Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, and Happy End of 2020!

The value of the HICP guides is really beginning to be realized as we approach the 2nd anniversary of it's release. Erik Decker, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer, University of Chicago Medical Center (and 405d Task Force industry lead and co-chair) was kind enough to join us again to discuss what's coming next for HICP and what he sees in healthcare cybersecurity management as we head into 2021.

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Amazon is rolling out a new "feature" called Sidewalk. If you have any Alexa devices or certain Ring devices on a network we say get off the Sidewalk! At least until you figure out how it can be secured.

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With so much going on this year things that would have been big news are slipping by with little notice. Back in 2016 The 21st Century Cures Act was passed which included a lot of healthcare IT updates to improve patient access to their information. A specific section was all about how to prevent information blocking. What is it, why do you care and when will things happen? That's the topic today.

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Each year we take the week off on Thanksgiving and share a replay of an episode we want to share. This year it seemed appropriate to share our original predictions for 2020 that we did just before the world turned upside down with a pandemic.

In a few weeks we will evaluate how we did but for now, catch up on how naive we all were just a few months ago.