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Jesse Fasolo and David Finn are back for part 2 of how Jesse built a strong security program at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Patterson NJ. Together, David and Jesse wrap up their conversation and discuss topics such as medical device security, M&A security, third-party risk, and more. 
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David Finn, EVP of Strategic Innovation at CynergisTek, talks with Jesse Fasolo, the Director of Technical Infrastructure and Cybersecurity at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, NJ about how Jesse built (and continues to build) a successful security program over the last 6 years. 
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CynergisTek's Privacy team joins us this week to discuss user access monitoring. Together, Andrew Mahler and Neaomi Quartucci chat about patient user access challenges, and how CynergisTek can help monitor, and report on inappropriate patient record access, helping privacy and security offices sleep better at night. 
 
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Marti Arvin, CTEK Executive Advisor is back to discuss the information blocking rule. While working with organizations on information blocking compliance, Marti has found some organizations still do not appear to be clear on what the obligations of the rule are. With the compliance effective date of April 5th, 2021 just around the corner, Marti will talk us through information blocking rule obligations, as well as highlight a few compliance considerations she has come across that not even she had thought about. 
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Description: On January 5th, 2021, an amendment to H.R 7898, the HITECH Act was signed into law. The law incentivizes the adoption of cybersecurity framework NIST as part of defense or mitigation to HIPAA enforcement. To discuss this long awaited accomplishment and overall win for cybersecurity practice as a whole, we are honored to have Mac McMillan and David Finn as this week’s guest speakers. Mac McMillan, Founder of CynergisTek has won 2019’s CHIME Foundation Industry Leadership Award, 2020’s Leadership Excellence Award in the cybersecurity sector from Baldrige Foundation, and is recognized as an industry icon. Listen in as Mac and David discuss this monumental law, and reflect on their work as longtime NIST advocates and cybersecurity catalysts.
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CynergisTek has partnered with Healthlink Advisors for a three-part video series to discuss the considerations for healthcare providers as it relates to the regulations around information blocking including who is impacted, what is information blocking, key dates and what is impacted preparing health organization’s for the upcoming CMS 2020 Interoperability Rule.
Watch the video series:
Compliance Regulation Related to Information Blocking – Part One
Compliance Regulation Related to Interoperability – Part Two
Visit the ONC Website on Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI)
https://www.healthit.gov/isa/united-states-core-data-interoperability-uscdi
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CynergisTek has partnered with Healthlink Advisors for a three-part podcast series to discuss the considerations for healthcare providers as it relates to the regulations around information blocking including who is impacted, what is information blocking, key dates and what is impacted preparing health organization’s for the upcoming CMS 2020 Interoperability Rule.
Watch the video series: 
Compliance Regulation Related to Information Blocking - Part One
Compliance Regulation Related to Interoperability - Part Two
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The Market for Virtual help is expanding. We’ve reached a level of specialization where a CISO simply cannot own all of the risk alone anymore. With the growing focus organizations have on cyber risk management, we welcome a new hat to the “risk mix”, the Virtual Cyber Risk Officer, A.K.A. a vCRO. In this episode of The Risk Perspective, CynergisTek’s EVP of Strategic Innovation, (and former CIO) David Finn, along with Ryan Stewart Manager of CynergisTek’s vCISO and IR Services discuss the new and emerging role of a vCRO. Together they dissect the differences between vCISOs and vCROs, how they complement each other, why a vCRO is needed, and more.
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Part two of our two-part series on mergers and acquisitions focuses on compliance considerations around M&A transactions. Together, CynergisTek’s compliance experts, Marti Arvin and Andrew Mahler discuss compliance roles throughout an M&A process. As M&A transactions have increased during the time of COVID-19, has there been a change in focus regarding compliance when it comes to due diligence? Is it ok for Chief Compliance Officers to weigh in during a transaction, if they have compliance related concerns, and where and how can third parties help during an M&A? Marti and Andrew will address these questions, and more in this episode which serves as a follow up to episode #4, part one “Privacy and Compliance Considerations Around Mergers and Acquisitions, Part One”.  
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In this episode of The Risk Perspective, we bring in Merger and Acquisition (M&A) gurus; Marti Arvin (Executive Advisor at CynergisTek), and Michael Loria (EVP at Brightcove, and former VP of Business Development for the IBM Security Division). Together, they discuss security and privacy considerations when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. Who should be involved, and when? What can the Tech field, teach healthcare? And How can third Parties help? Answers to these questions and more can be found in this easy to listen episode. Remember to tune in next week for Part 2, where we will dissect the compliance side of M&A.
 
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