Privacy and Security Outlook for 2013

Mac McMillan, co-founder and CEO of CynergisTek, Inc., and current Chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Policy Task Force. Mac provides an overview and analysis of the key issues that could impact the healthcare industry in 2013. Doing a chronological analysis of events from security breaches to new rules to enforcement actions to lessons learned from OCR audits combined with the evolution of the threat and health IT ecosystem, a challenging terrain may be ahead for healthcare executives. Incident costs rob valuable resources from positive care initiatives and healthcare cannot continue to afford them.