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At the beginning of 2016, we did some speculation about what the year would be like in the cybersecurity and HIPAA worlds. Today we plan to review how we did for 2016 and explain expect healthcare breaches continue in 2017.

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We've talked before about HIPAA showing up in lots of other places. That trend has continue. Now, you will see HIPAA questions on cyber security insurance applications, certification programs from other entities, and now in payment model reforms. Today we are going to talk a little bit about MACRA and HIPAA requirements. If you don't know what MACRA, APMs, and MIPS is all about we may not cover enough to explain it all be we will certainly touch on MACRA and HIPAA crossing paths starting in 2017.

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Last January, we did an episode with a 2016 Compliance Management Plan. We even created a reminder poster for it you could download. The episode was about providing a compliance management plan guideline for compliance officers who are trying to find a way to fit this in your with all your other job duties.

That episode was very popular and the poster was downloaded by new folks even in December.

This episode reviews that compliance management plan and adds a bit more to it for "extra credit". We also added a second poster and compliance management plan for a more aggressive approach than just the bare minimum.

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Every day it seems we read about more healthcare cyber attacks. As the news keeps breaking with more details on the wide variety of cases, we have plenty of work to do just to keep up. Today, there are so many cases to talk about we couldn't even decide what to call the episode.

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Listen in to outtakes from this year's episodes. We need something lighter to celebrate the holidays!

For a change there was a bipartisan bill passed with some big impacts on healthcare. HIPAA 21st Century Cures Act implications are, of course, our focus. Today, we review some thoughts on the bill that was signed into law this week.

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Recorded during our first live broadcast, this episode covers several OCR announcements. We start with the OCR phishing alert. Followed by that we discuss OCR's guidance that said you should consider multi-factor authentication in your risk analysis.

There have also been more resolution agreements that we haven't covered on an episode so we hit those, as well.

Since it was a live show we also take some questions!

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Phishing attacks in healthcare are on the rise just like every other industry. However, unlike many other targets, phishing attacks in healthcare have a much higher return on investment if the phisherman gets anyone to take the bait. We've talked multiple times how healthcare is now a major target for hackers. Then, it only makes sense that we will see a continued rise in efforts aimed at phishing attacks in healthcare.

• Phishing - spray and pray - grab an email list and let it rip - big net phishing
• Spear phishing - Aimed directly at you. Everything makes it look like it should be in your email meant for you from someone you know
• Whaling - Pointed directly at upper management of a company with an urgent business matter
• Soft targeting - send to people with a certain job that they would expect, like HR gets a resume but financial team gets a spreadsheet
• Telephone phishing - Just call you up and act like they should be asking you for login information

We are holding episode 81 for ransom during the Thanksgiving holiday. For our black Friday episode we hope you enjoy this replay of our most popular episode.

Stay tuned! Episode 81 will be released next Friday. We will be discussing the different types of phishing, how they work and how you can resist the bait.

In early Oct the long awaited guidance on HIPAA Compliant Cloud was released by HHS / OCR. There wasn't a lot of shocking information for us since it just restated, maybe more clearly, that cloud services providers (CSPs) must sign a BAA and meet certain obligations as a BA.

Hopefully, this will address all the cases where some CSPs would use "slight of hand" with phrasing to claim they didn't have to be a HIPAA compliance cloud provider. The amount of "all ya gotta do is" type of misinformation only makes things harder to get done. Let's look at what the guidance addressed.

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