This is part 1 of a two-part series on the presentation August 10 by Mac McMillan of the SynergisTek consulting firm, at the CHIME/AEHIS LEAD Forum event in Nashville. This article covers a portion of McMillan’s presentation; part 2 will cover the concluding portion of McMillan’s address, as well as his exclusive interview with Healthcare Informaticsthat immediately followed his speech on Wednesday.
Mac McMillan, the CEO of the Austin, Tex.-based CynergisTek consulting firm, and one of the healthcare industry’s IT security luminaries, offered a bracing view of the current IT security landscape to those attending the CHIME/AEHIS LEAD Forum Event, being held Monday, August 10 at the Sheraton Downtown Nashville, in Nashville, Tennessee, and co-sponsored by the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and its subsidiary association, the Association for Executives in Health Information Security (AEHIS), and by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2—a sister organization to Healthcare Informatics under the Vendome Group, LLC umbrella).
McMillan shared his perspectives on what he sees as a very challenging health IT security environment going forward, in a speech entitled “Developing and Managing an Ongoing Risk Management Program.” The risk management perspective on the current health IT security landscape is important, he emphasized. “One of the things I’ve learned is that the teams that win, study the enemy, have a good plan, and can execute,” McMillan told his audience, beginning his speech by sharing a personal story. “Everybody in my family has always been involved in athletics,” he noted, “and most have been in the Marines or the Army. And my oldest daughter actually took it to the highest level. She graduated as an All-American in volleyball. For the full article click here
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