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Congress Stepping in After Reorganizations, Leadership Vacuum Leave HHS Cybersecurity Center's Fate Unclear
Securing Health Data Means Going Well Beyond HIPAA
Jon R. Anderson | GovTech Works | August 17, 2017
A two-decade-old law designed to protect patients' privacy may be preventing health care organizations from doing more to protect vulnerable health care data from theft or abuse. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) established strict rules for how health data can be stored and shared. But in making health care providers vigilant about privacy protection, HIPAA may inadvertently distract providers from focusing on something just as important: overall information security.
"Unfortunately I think HIPAA has focused healthcare organizations too much on data privacy and not enough on data integrity, data loss, disrupted operations and patient safety. You can get your identity back at some point, but not your life," warns Denise Anderson, president of the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC). "Many of the attacks we are seeing, such as WannaCry, are disruptive attacks and are not data theft attacks. Organizations should be driven to focus on enterprise risk management and it should come from the Board and CEO level on down."
"Cybersecurity in Health Care crosses a wide spectrum of issues," adds Sallie Sweeney, principal cyber solutions architect in the Health and Civilian Solutions Division of systems integrator General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). "It's not just protecting patient data. It includes protecting their financial data and making sure the medical equipment works the way it's supposed to, when it's supposed to, without potential for error. Think about the consequences of a Denial of Service attack aimed at the systems monitoring patient vital signs in the ICU. You have to look at the whole picture."...
A Bureaucratic Mess Leads to Shutdown of HHS Cybersecurity Center
HHS cybersecurity center so unstable staff don't know if it exists, Congress argues
Sidelined HHS Deputy Chief Information Security Officer blasts agency, claims cybersecurity center 'decimated'
The Pathway to Patient Data Ownership and Better Health
Cyber-Fit
Denial of Service attack
Denise Anderson
DHS National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC)
Electronic Personal Health Information (ePHI)
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)
Guide to Security of Electronic Health Information
Healthcare Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (HCCIC)
intelligence and threat sharing
Jon R. Anderson
June 2017 Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force
Leo Scanlon
Maggie Amato
National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC)
Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
patient vital signs monitoring systems
ransomware attacks
Sallie Sweeney
US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
vulnerability management and incident response

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Andrew Hetzel was contracted as a coffee value chain specialist for the USAID Value Chains for Rural Development project in Myanmar (Burma) through implementation partner Winrock International and the Coffee Quality Institute. During this five year project, Andrew was responsible for market strategy, coffee value differentiation and execution of an export marketing plan to high-value consuming nations that led to coffee industry market linkages.
In Myanmar, Mr. Hetzel was subcontracted by USAID in May of 2015 through the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) as its senior adviser in charge of international coffee marketing and trade for the Value Chains for Rural Development project. Value Chains is a five-year USAID-funded program in Myanmar, implemented by Winrock International, to increase productivity and competitiveness for rural farmers. At the time it began, Myanmar had only recently emerged from diplomatic isolation, and its farmers had no knowledge of best practices in coffee agriculture, processing, or international trade. Myanmar was completely unknown to consumer markets outside of Asia. With poor quality and lacking international market access, coffees produced by smallholders were often sold as unprocessed cherries, at sub-commodity 'c' contract prices at local markets or to opportunistic traders at the Chinese border.
The assignment began with a baseline assessment of Myanmar's coffee quality and capacity for trade, leading to the development of a strategic marketing plan. To sample representative coffees and build international industry awareness for the effort, Mr. Hetzel developed protocols and organized the country's first national cup quality contest. Sixty samples from the Value Chains project communities were collected by extension agents and evaluated to Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) standards by a small team of international cuppers at a facility in Yangon. Results were publicized by Hetzel in coffee trade media. Data collected during stakeholder consultations at the same time led to the development of the country's first coffee marketing strategy plan. (see attachment Myanmar Coffee Market Strategy 15-16) A separate team of agriculture specialists working under CQI focused on the implementation of best practices and installation of processing equipment, concurrently with the market evaluation.
press promotion resulting in a series of editorial articles across the global coffee trade media.
As the result of this coordinated marketing effort in combination with performance by the agronomy team to improve coffee quality at a rapid pace, high-value direct trade relationships were developed with visible and influential coffee buyers in only two seasons. New trade partners resulting from the effort included visible specialty coffee buyers from the United States (Whole Foods, Blue Bottle Coffee, La Colombe Torrefaction, others), in Japan (Key Coffee), Australia/NZ (Toby's Estate, Raw Material), Europe (Kaffitar, Caravan Coffee), Korea and elsewhere. Upon completion of the 2017 harvest, coffees originating from the Value Chains project were sold in their entirety with excess demand. Average green coffee sale prices in the 2017 season topped US$3.00 / lb (AU$8.33 / kg) F.O.B. with some lots selling over US$10 / lb (AU$27.74 / kg). Mr. Hetzel's contract concluded at the end of the 2017 harvest season, but the trajectory for Myanmar project remains positive, as it works to expand production capacity to meet market demand and provide a new source of income to rural households.


It has been six months since its Green Label certification was suspended - because the company was linked to the haze that blanketed Singapore last year - but Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is still reeling from the repercussions.
Indonesia's largest pulp and paper company said it lost "millions" of dollars in sales as a result of the suspension.
The ongoing suspension means its products, such as popular tissue brands Paseo and Jolly, remain absent from the shelves of major supermarkets here.
Products with the Green Label, which is issued by the Singapore Environment Council (SEC), are considered environmentally friendly and APP is making getting the certification reinstated a priority.
APP's vice-president of corporate affairs in Singapore, Mr Jose Raymond, told The New Paper: "(Getting the certification reinstated is) at the top of our agenda and we're working with SEC. We will leave it in its hands."
Last September, the National Environment Agency (NEA) issued APP a notice under Section 10 of the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act.
NEA also issued notices under Section 9 of the Act to six other firms based in Indonesia.
The next month, SEC suspended APP's Green Label, prompting supermarkets such as FairPrice and Sheng Siong to take APP products off their shelves.
Spokesmen for both supermarkets said they currently do not stock APP products.
Mr Raymond told TNP: "The haze episode of 2015 showed that APP needs to do a lot more on the ground to tackle the fires."
To that end, APP invested US$20 million (S$27.4 million) in a multifaceted fire prevention and suppression programme, which included getting fire management experts to train 400 of its staff and suppliers.
APP also signed a memorandum of understanding with seven villages near its concessions in South Sumatra province.
Under the memorandum, APP committed itself to spending an additional US$10 million over five years on a variety of programmes to give villagers a reason not to clear land by burning down forests for illegal logging.
Indonesian environmental activist and independent journalist, Mr Taufik Wijaya, applauded APP for investing in farming communities.
"The money that it has pledged so far must be focused on improving the socio-economic status of the villages," he said.
For Mr Zenzi Suhadi, a campaign manager for Indonesian environmental group Walhi, the effectiveness of the programmes has yet to be determined.
"The success of APP's programmes will be seen only when the dry season truly comes around, in May to August," he said.
In Singapore, grassroots group People's Movement to Stop Hazewas "glad" to see APP investing in community engagement programmes.
But the group's strategic development and research director, Mr Chris Cheng, said "such efforts should have started years ago when it was accused by many NGOs for its community exploitation and burning within concessions".
Professor Ang Peng Hwa, an adviser for the group, told TNP: "Quite clearly, what had been spent was not enough."
In 2013, APP and its suppliers spent US$4 million on fire detection and response, and on training for firefighters to fight fires on its concessions, according toits website.
Responding to the scepticism, Mr Raymond said: "What happened in 2015 was unprecedented, that's why APP has invested a lot more money in fire suppression and fire prevention this year."
The company is one of the handful in Indonesia that made maps of its concessions, as well as those of its suppliers, available online for public scrutiny.
It is according to the World Resources Institute, which runs the Global Forest Watch, an online forest monitoring and fire alert system that provides detailed maps and analysis of forest fires around the world.
Additionally, in March, the Forest Stewardship Council announced that it is in talks with APP to reinstate the council's certification for the company.
The council, a global NGO promoting responsible fire management, terminated APP's certification in October 2007, citing "publicly available information" that showed APP was involved in destructive forestry practice.
The World Wide Fund for Nature considers the council's certification as being the best in ensuring environmentally responsible forest management.
So what would the end game be for Mr Raymond?
"It should be blue skies for all of us, right? That is Asean's end game as well," he said.
What happened in 2015 was unprecedented, that's why APP has invested a lot more money in fire suppression and fire prevention this year.
The National Environment Agency in 2015 served seven companies notices under the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act.
Six of those companies, all of which are based in Indonesia, were served under Section 9 of the Act.
The section requested them to take immediate measures to stop the fires that caused the haze.
Asia Pulp and Paper was served under Section 10 of the Act, which asked for information on one of its subsidiaries here.
The company was also asked to share the steps its Indonesian suppliers took to put out the fires in its concessions.
Environment and Water Resources Minister Masagos Zulkifli said in a speech at the 3rd Singapore Dialogue on Sustainable World Resources on April 12 that Singapore will use the Act to address the commercial roots of the trans-boundary haze.
"Companies practising unsustainable production that affects us with haze must know that ... they will have to face the consequences sooner or later," he said.
Mr Jose Raymond, 44, is tasked with improving his company's reputation.
He works for Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), the largest pulp and paper firm in Indonesia that has some 2.6 million ha of land concessions under it.
APP products, such as tissue brands Paseo and Jolly, were pulled from supermarket shelves here after the company's Green Label certification was suspended by the Singapore Environment Council (SEC).
It was an unusual twist - from 2011 to last year, Mr Raymond was the chief executive officer of SEC.
He is now vice-president of corporate affairs in Singapore for APP and his days are spent reaching out to everyone, from the media and the Government to the buying public and the company's shareholders.
Mr Raymond hopes to change the negative general sentiment the public has of APP.
"That's the challenge we have right now," he said.
"We needed to manage and improve on whatever negativity and perception the public has about APP.
"We have got a lot more aggressiveness reaching out to the media about what we have done," he said.
The goal is to let everyone know that APP is serious about tackling the haze.
In a bid to regain its Green Label, APP announced last month that it had hired SEC's former head of eco-certification, Mr Kavickumar Muruganathan.
He is APP's new manager of sustainability and stakeholder engagement.
So what does it mean for APP?
"It just means that we are trying a lot harder to prevent a repeat of 2015," said Mr Raymond.
We have got a lot more aggressiveness reaching out to the media about what we have done.


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Q: Chrome Custom Tabs and push notifications When using an android app with chrome custom tabs, the push notifications can be registered there? And if so, they will apear in the chrome browser, outside the app?
How does it behave?
Chrome Custom Tabs:
https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/customtabs
Web Push Notifications:
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notifications-on-the-open-web

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A real surprise and a pleasant one! She arrived with a couple of sisters. Thank you LESEHEST!
Nine mystery short stories. Very nice stories, some of wich I didn't already know.
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Oh yes, very nice stories, some were old acquaintances.
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Labor Unions Call for Tax Fairness
It will require all hands on deck for our state and country to recover from the current pandemic. Throughout the crisis front line workers have answered the call to service, risking their own health and safety as well as that of their loved ones, while billionaires throughout Connecticut continue to see pandemic profits.
CEA has joined with a coalition of labor unions, including the Connecticut AFL-CIO, State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC), and Connecticut Service Employee International Union State Council (CT SEIU State Council) to run a television and digital ad campaign calling for a state budget that focuses on helping working and middle class people recover from the impacts of the pandemic.
The ad campaign thanks workers for their sacrifices, pushes our state to lessen the burden on our working- and middle-class families and, finally, to tax the rich in Connecticut.
Right now in our state, the top one percent of earners make 37 times more than the bottom 99 percent of workers, making Connecticut the third most unequal state in our country, and adding urgency to the labor coalition's message about fairness for working people.
"Tax fairness is about the future of every child in our public schools. Investing in public education provides a greater return to our economic prosperity than perpetuating an unfair tax system," says CEA President Jeff Leake.
The 400 wealthiest Americans now pay a lower total tax rate than any other income group. The 400 wealthiest households in America pay only 23 percent of their total income in federal, state, and local taxes, compared with 70 percent in 1950 and 47 percent in 1980.
"It doesn't have to be that way," the ad says. "It's up to us. We deserve a People's Recovery."
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Worsborough Bridge 0-2 North Ferriby
An impressive performance from North Ferriby resulted in a 2-0 victory over Worsbrough Bridge. A penalty from Danny East and a first Ferriby goal for Rich Medcalf gave the Villagers all three points.
Chris Bolder made two changes from last week's victory over Dronfield. Joel Shortland came in for Adam Bolder and Danny Emerton replaced Danny Buttle.
The Villagers started bright and had the majority of the possession early on. The first chance of the game fell to Danny East who saw his chipped effort saved by Worsbrough goalkeeper Ross Pritchard.
It was Josh Whiteley's turn to get in the thick of the action. First, he went on a run to get himself past the Worsbrough defence, but his cross evaded all those in the box. Secondly, Whiteley was the recipient of great work from Levi Tarbotton who did well to set the Ferriby attacker free. Whiteley's shot was deflected and well saved by Pritchard. Whiteley was involved again, great work from the Villagers, who were playing some brilliant football, allowed Danny East to cross the ball into the box but a backpedalling Josh Whiteley couldn't keep his header down.
The Villagers were awarded the chance to break the deadlock as Josh Whiteley was fouled in the area. Whiteley looked to get on the end of a ball played into the box, but before the attacker could get to the ball, he was fouled on the left-hand side of the box. Up stepped Danny East who calmly placed the ball past Pritchard to put Bolder's side ahead.
The Villagers doubled their lead thanks to Rich Medcalf's first goal for the club. A long ball over the top was misjudged by the Worsbrough backline and this allowed Medcalf to advance on goal. The experienced striker calmly fired home at the front post to all but assure the Villagers of victory.
The hosts had the chance to make it a nervy last few moments for Ferriby. Danny East was penalised for pulling a Worsbrough attacker. Conor Glavin stepped up for the home side, but Jordan Douglas dived the right way and made the save down low. The ball was still alive in the Ferriby box. The hosts did put the ball in the Ferriby net but a foul in the build-up ruled the goal out, meaning it would be back-to-back clean sheets for Chris Bolder's league-best defence.
North Ferriby Manager Chris Bolder summed up his thoughts of the game, "It's a difficult place to come, we played some fantastic stuff at times, and we were aggressive with our play. First half going up the hill we did everything but score. We had enough chances to put the game beyond them in the first half, if it doesn't go in you need to pick up where you left off second half.
Bolder was asked about returning midfielder Joel Shortland's impact on the game, "It's great to see Joel back, we have been patient with Joel, on pitches like this, Joel loves that side of the game. He and Louis Kirk were outstanding in the middle of the pitch and picked up everything".
North Ferriby: 1)Douglas, 2) Tarbotton 3) Start 4) Shortland 5) Tilsley 6) Donald 7) Emerton 8) Kirk 9) Corner (Medcalf) 10) East 11) Whiteley
Subs not used – Exall, Forrester, Dennett, Buttle
Report kindly provided by North Ferriby