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Protect Yourself – Don’t let Scrooge Cyber Sabotage Your Holiday Shopping Season!
We are into the Holiday Season and Cyber Scrooges - cyber criminals - are alive and well! Breaches seem to be a daily occurrence. In the area where I live, they even recommend paying for gas with cash and don’t use a credit card at the pump due to card skimmers. ...
MACRA Deadline Approaching – Schedule your SRA today!
MACRA Deadline Approaching - Schedule your SRA today! In an effort to help medical practices maximize their Medicare reimbursements by meeting MACRA requirements, Third Rock is offering a 20% discount for our Security Risk Assessment package if you schedule your SRA...
Upcoming Events of Interest
The Health Care Compliance Association Regional Conference will be held in Houston on Dec. 8, 2017. Third Rock's COO, Ed Jones, PMP, CHSP, will be participating on a panel discussing the importance of Patient Information Privacy along with representatives...
CIS SecureSuite member
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THIRD ROCK BECOMES A CIS SECURESUITE MEMBER Austin, Tx, November 20, 2017 -- Third Rock today announced that it has become a CIS SecureSuite® member. Through this membership, Third Rock is further bolstering its cybersecurity defenses by...
MACRA 2017 deadlines are coming. Do you have a Security Risk Assessment scheduled before December 31st?
Right now the healthcare industry is in the final race to complete the requirements for MACRA, the new reimbursement scheme for Medicare. Thousands of dollars are at risk – failing to satisfy the MACRA requirements in 2017 will result in payment reductions for all of...
Check out our own Robert Felps, CEO Third Rock, speaking at two events in November
Robert is taking his acclaimed “Cure for the HIPAA Headache” presentation on the road this month and presenting at the Developmental Services Network Annual Meeting on November 6th in La Quinta, California. He then heads to Dallas on November 16th for...
Innotech Austin 2017 – Discount Code
Come hear our very own Julie Rennecker at Innotech Austin 2017 on November 16. She's presenting Healthcare - An Identity Thief's SuperStore for the ISSA Cybersecurity Track. Healthcare records include some of the most complete - and thus, most valuable -...
Too Many Passwords and Too Little “Personal” Memory!
I began my morning by starting up my PC and getting the message “Your password has expired. You must change it now!” Temporarily frozen at my keyboard, my mind is churning to think up a new password that I have a decent chance of remembering. Should I tweak the old...
HIPAA Compliance is a Business Decision
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with a technology vendor who is starting to move into the healthcare space. Their technology isn’t used in the creation or manipulation of patients’ protected health information (PHI), but they do store information on behalf of...
The Most Common Mistakes in Cybersecurity are Preventable
Many of the issues we see in cybersecurity, whether you are in healthcare, retail, finance, etc., are by and large preventable. It is not about having a big budget or a large team of experts. No, some of it is just common sense. It is not unlike driving a car. When...