HIPAA as a Security Framework
HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is a federal law in the United States that sets standards for safeguarding certain health information. While HIPAA includes provisions related to information security, it is not considered a comprehensive cybersecurity framework. Enacted by Congress in 1996, and has continued to...
One of Several Security Frameworks Intended To Protect Patient Healthcare Data -NIST-
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a framework that has become increasingly important in the healthcare industry in recent years. This framework is designed to help organizations manage risk and improve cybersecurity. In this article, we will explore what the NIST framework is, how it works,...
Cybersecurity Education in the Modern Digital Market Space
Education of anything has changed so drastically, rapidly, and contextually in recent years, that sometimes I wounder how anyone on this planet can differentiate what is fact, fiction, or just plain bull. Let me take you back several years to a time when education and learning was a way...
Current Healthcare Environment
As I look back over a long, successful career in the healthcare space, I have been fortunate enough to experience rapid change from the days of a pacemaker so large we were implanting them in the abdomen and tunneling the lead to the outside wall of the heart. ...