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NIST Privacy Framework Second Drafting Workshop Highlights

May 16th, 2019

The Maize team recently attended the second drafting workshop for the NIST Privacy Framework in Atlanta. During the workshop, stakeholders came together to engage in a facilitated discussion on the advancement of the privacy framework. Maize Analytics had the opportunity to partake in the workshop…

Maize Analytics Journal of Health Care Compliance Feature

April 10th, 2019

Maize Analytic’s Founder and CEO, Dr. Daniel Fabbri, was recently asked to write a feature article for the Journal of Health Care Compliance on managing third-party vendors in the era of big data and machine learning. The article dives into the types of risks that covered entities face when utilizing third-party vendors and…

Maize Now Available on Azure Marketplace

March 8th, 2019

Maize Analytics’ Patient Privacy Monitoring tool is now available in the Azure Marketplace to allow for a seamless user management and sign on experience. This integration of the Maize tool and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) allows Maize customers to grant and control access to their privacy monitoring tool through…

Hospitals Spend More After Data Breach, but there is a Fix.

January 17th, 2019

Two recently published reports discuss the high costs healthcare organizations incur due to a data breach. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that it takes a breached organization a full year to recover. From fines and lawsuits, to having to rebuild the hospital’s image, it is hours of work at a high cost.

Updates to NIST Risk Management Framework – The Compliance & Ethics Blog

January 8th, 2019

Jason Williams, JD, MIST, Operations Director at Maize Analytics, recently weighed in on the updates to the NIST Risk Management Framework. In this guest blog post on The Compliance & Ethics Blog, he dives into the seven major objectives of the…

HHS Health Industry & Public Health Sector Coordinating Councils releases HICP

January 7th, 2019

The HHS Healthcare & Public Health Sector Coordinating Councils, recently released Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients (HICP). A four-part publication designed to raise awareness among executives, administrators, and healthcare providers…

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Privacy Framework

December 4th, 2018

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a request for information for the NIST Privacy Framework: An Enterprise Risk Management Tool (”Privacy Framework”). he purpose of the privacy framework is to improve management of privacy risk, which is a major gap across healthcare…

Creating a Culture of Compliance in Healthcare Organizations through Collaboration

December 3rd, 2018

Over the last couple years, The University of Kansas Health System (”UKHS”) has leveraged Maize Analytics’ machine learning auditing system to help automate the manual processes surrounding access and authorization in its process to…

Managing Healthcare Insider Security Threats

November 14th, 2018

Often when discussing hospital security threats, external breaches are the main focus. However, recent evidence shows those breaches are not the biggest concern to hospitals – they’re more concerned with breaches that can happen within their own halls, by their own staff. HIMSS Media recently conducted a study on behalf of SailPoint, and the general […]

Risks of ‘Black Box’ Machine Learning in Compliance and Privacy Programs

November 5th, 2018

Recent machine learning advances have the potential to revolutionize patient care through better clinical risk prediction and precision medicine. Rightfully so, the compliance and privacy communities are adapting these machine learning…

Often Forgotten Risk to Patient Data

October 31st, 2018

Academic medical centers and health systems with large research groups present unique challenges for EMR access monitoring programs, according to a recent talk by Dr. Daniel Fabbri, Founder and CEO of Maize Analytics. Dr. Fabbri, also an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Computer Sciences at Vanderbilt University, spoke on balancing the need to provide electronic […]

Passwords Aren’t Protecting EMR Data

October 23rd, 2018

Many healthcare systems rely on user IDs and passwords to control access to electronic medical records (EMR). These safeguards can help protect sensitive patient data. Unfortunately, many healthcare workers share passwords. In one study, 73% of healthcare workers reported obtaining another staff member’s login credentials. Respondents estimated that this security breach occurred 4-5 times. Most […]