security

Chad Brisendine, VP/CIO, St. Luke's University Health Network, and Rob Faix, VP Technology Services, Impact Advisors, LLC, introduce the fundamentals of blockchain technology, practical application, impacts, and benefits to the healthcare industry.  Blockchain technology, most notably associated with the digital currency Bitcoin, continues to be explored as a technology framework for the trusted sharing of information of all types....

Satish Maripuri, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Nuance Healthcare.  The very nature of cyberattacks is changing; they are faster, more sophisticated and potentially more destructive. As the severity of incidents increases, the knowledge to address the technical aspects and leadership skills to manage through an attack have never been more important. After successfully managing through the June NotPetya...

Julie Bulson, DNP, MPA, RN, NE-BC, Director, Emergency Preparedness, and Burt Smith, Director, Enterprise Operations, Spectrum Health.  The information technology department has worked closely with the emergency preparedness department to design a major incident management system that closely resembles the hospital incident command structure assisting in a rapid response to IS incidents while improving communication to the organization.  The...

Lowell Kruse, retired CEO, Heartland Health, 2009 Baldrige Award recipient and Baldrige Foundation Board member, and one of the founding Board Members of the Scottsdale Institute, and Al Faber, President and CEO, Baldrige Foundation.  Leveraging the highly successful NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Baldrige Framework concepts, the new Cybersecurity Excellence Builder will be a tool which helps organizations improve their...

Jane Harper, Director Privacy & Security Risk Management Services, Information Privacy & Security Office, Henry Ford Health System.  This presentation discusses how risk management is a foundation to a robust security program and what happens when risk management goes wrong.  Jane discusses how to incorporate risk into your security framework, and how to look at security not just from...

Jigar Kadakia, CISO and Chief Privacy Officer, Partners HealthCare. Until recently, many health care organizations haven't had the resources to stand up dedicated information security teams. However, with the changing regulatory and threat landscapes, many are now trying to create information security offices to provide focused effort on these critical functions. But even after securing the budgetary commitment to...

John Fowler, Deputy Information Security Officer, Henry Ford Health System. Today, security is in the forefront of everyone's mind; however, mostly for the wrong reasons. Organizations are too focused on regulatory requirements and the "what if" or "what did happen" as reported in the press. As such, security is seen as a necessary evil or simply a non-value added...

Karl J. West, CISO and Assistant Vice President, Intermountain Healthcare.  Karl has spent four years developing a Cybersecurity Operations Center.  He discusses the evolving threat landscape in healthcare and how and why to develop a Cybersecurity Operations Center.  The teleconference reviews the people, process, technology and cost challenges, along with the compelling message needed to inform and educate the...

Mark Ford, Principal; and Russell L. Jones, Partner, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  The Internet of Things (IoT) and how IoT devices can be secured in the current cyber landscape is a hot issue.  An even more critical issue is how network connected medical devices (IoT Medical) can be hacked, whether patients can be harmed, and more importantly how they can...

Bob Gross, HIPAA Program Manager, University of Chicago Hospitals, and Suzi Birz, Principal, HiQAnalytics, conduct an open forum around key issues currently being addressed at the UCH. Even though the deadline to comply with the HIPAA Security Rule has passed, health care organizations still struggle with how to address security issues for which there are technical solutions available, but...