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March 4, 2021
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What devices do you need to head off the unexpected in 2021?

2021 has already had a rocky start – and compared to 2020 that’s saying a lot. Many hoped that this year would mark a return to normal. Instead it seems we’re in for a continuation of our new normal, complete with unexpected threats and digital acceleration. Anticipating what’s around the [...]

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March 1, 2021
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Degree of Awareness

This week a friend shared a story about her college-aged daughter Jane and her recent experience in finding a job. She is in graphic design and has a portfolio, so when she came across a well-known company that creates sports-branded gear that was hiring, it was something she wanted to [...]

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February 25, 2021
How To

How to handle an IT disaster without losing your cool

Catch a nasty virus or experience a natural disaster and you’re just a three-digit phone call away from help. That’s where medical emergencies and IT emergencies differ. There’s no emergency number for an IT disaster, so where do you turn when the unthinkable happens? Have a disaster management plan Hoping [...]

As the Rules Apply

This week in HIPAA news we are shining a light on two rules that display the spectrum of ‘bending’ from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The first, showing flexibility, announced that penalties with regard to HIPAA, as it pertains to the COVID-19 vaccination, [...]

What happens when automation and outsourcing go toe-to-toe?

Outsourcing is a cost-savings approach that was cemented during the first industrial revolution. The idea was to create more output for less capital by fulfilling mass production efforts where labor costs are lower (i.e. abroad). As we enter the age of automation, the next industrial revolution will be a digital [...]

Learn from Others

The office for Civil Rights gathered information at the end of 2020 that is important for any covered entity or business associate that operates under HIPAA guidelines. Summarized in the U.S. Health and Human Service (HHS) HIPAA Audits Industry Report, this data should be regarded as a useful tool for any business that [...]

Cybersecurity Trends for 2021

Bell bottoms, neon colors…kale…trends come, and trends go, and generally, we’re not one to care much about what’s in style, but cybersecurity trends? That’s one we can get behind and think that there can never be enough of! So, what can you expect to see as both a consumer, employee, [...]

Stolen Secrets

Every family has that safely guarded recipe. The family secret of the special ingredient or process that makes their mom or grandma’s signature dish extra magical. It is guarded through generations, shared only in the kitchen or on a tattered recipe card. Imagine if a hacker stole that recipe and [...]

A Quick Refresher

As we move ahead, taking advantage of the energy of the new year and work to get our annual plans moving, sometimes rushing to get a lot more done than usual since we now know the unexpected is all that can be expected, let’s have a quick refresher. On what, [...]

What If Employees Refuse the Vaccine?

In healthcare, we want to assume that we are collectively working to advance medicine and whatever the latest developments are, well we want “in”. What if that development is the COVID-19 vaccine and as it turns out, someone on your team isn’t interested? According to a survey done by the Pew Research [...]

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