Cyber Security & Healthcare: A Check-Up

We are excited to announce our next event titled ‘Cyber Security & Healthcare: A Check-Up’ to be held on Thursday, October 29th.

As we know, all kinds of our personal data are under threat from many different sources. Industries ranging from financial institutions and retail to entertainment and government are scrambling to find new approaches and tools to respond to increasingly sophisticated attacks.

How is health data protection measuring up? Healthcare IT can sometimes move at a slow pace in terms of adopting and adapting to next generation technologies. With the rapidly evolving nature of cyber attacks, is the industry well positioned to prevent and respond to continued and even more serious security breaches in the future?

Please join us for what promises to be an engaging discussion on topics such as emerging approaches to protect health data, the challenges faced while adopting these new approaches, and the commonalities and differences in cyber security for healthcare compared to other domains.

We have a stellar line-up of speakers that includes:

• Hunter Whitney (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunterwhitney) – Hunter Whitney is a consultant, author, and instructor who brings a user experience (UX) design perspective to data visualization. He has advised corporations, start-ups, government agencies, and NGOs to achieve their goals through a strategic design approach to digital products and services. His experience includes leading the designs of data analysis interfaces for uses ranging from biomedical research to cyber security. Hunter is the author of "Data Insights: New Ways to Visualize and Make Sense of Data” and contributed a chapter in “Designing for Emerging Technologies: UX for Genomics, Robotics, and the Internet of Things”.

• Ravi Devireddy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravidevireddy) – Ravi Devireddy is the CTO and co-founder of E8 Security. He has two decades of experience in leading the development of innovative, high-performance software and services at prominent technology companies. Ravi is a thought leader and practitioner in the areas of machine learning, data analytics and cybersecurity.Most recently, Ravi was head of security analytics at Visa Inc., where he led the company’s strategic cybersecurity initiatives to protect the infrastructure used to process $6 trillion in global payment card transactions. Ravi pioneered the use of big data analytics for next-generation security monitoring to defend against evolving cyber threats. Ravi holds a bachelor’s degree in information systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, and an executive MBA from the University of San Francisco.

• Jim Bloedau (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbloedau) (BS-MT, RRT, CPHIMS) – Jim's passion and focus is on the trends and facts of what he calls "the new middle market of healthcare" and how remote care technology will serve it best. He describes this space as a place where payers and providers are building new service models around the emerging accountable care (ACO), patient centered medical home (PCMH) and participatory health models. In response, developers are using non-invasive, remote care and mobile technology and apps to help professionals and consumers find and follow the shortest path to optimal health. "It is the most exciting time in healthcare since I started working in hospitals when I was nineteen," Jim concludes. In his business career, he has served high tech and health care companies from start-up to Fortune 500 including: Numera Health, VirnetX, VHA, AT&T, Hewlett Packard, Apple and Glassrock Home Healthcare.

• Heather Eggers (https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=ADEAAACXWrsBQT_oeGv_3aO9WyLnzDt9PVB5PSQ&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=oVi6&locale=en_US&srchid=1925829961445017874077&srchindex=1&srchtotal=10&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A1925829961445017874077%2CVSRPtargetId%3A9919163%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH) - Heather Eggers is the Director in PwC's health care practice and is based out of San Francisco, CA where she focuses on delivering cybersecurity, privacy and IT risk and compliance services for the health care industry, including providers, payers and pharmaceutical/life sciences companies. She has significant experience with helping health care clients manage security, privacy and IT regulatory and compliance risks. Heather leads PwC’s health care security, privacy and IT risk efforts in Northern California and has conducted a wide range of security and privacy related initiatives to help mature organizations’ security and privacy programs

• Daniel MacLellan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/crucibleworks) - Daniel MacLellan is an experienced software trainer with a hands-on background in multi-platform software, hardware and networking coupled with extensive change management consulting experience and systems security knowledge. At Tripwire, Dan has personally worked with hundreds of companies in the Fortune 500, training them to maximize their product investments, implement standards-compliant IT infrastructures, succeed with regulatory audits and help assure the security of their stakeholders' data. Aurora Healthcare, Centers for Medicaid Services, St. Luke's Health System and United Healthcare are among the many health organizations that Dan has been able to help in leveraging the IT security and compliance benefits provided by Tripwire's suite of software products and services. His primary goal is to help his clients maximize their understanding of technologies that will help improve the alignment of IT and business process in their organizations.

Schedule:

6 - 6:45 - Networking and Snacks

6:45 - 7:00 - Introductions

7:00 - 8:15 Panel Discussion and Q&A

8:15 - 9:00 - Networking with Panelists

Thank you to our fantastic sponsor, Hogan Lovells for hosting this month’s event!