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Mitigate IT Risk & Accelerate IT Maturity in Local Governments with Impact Makers

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) | Apr 6, 2022 | Public Sector, Risk

Cybersecurity is a significant issue in local governments because of external systems needing to connect with the public. For example, Impact Makers’ Vice President Joe Pugh remembers from his ten years serving at Chesterfield County that they had forty-seven lines of...

The Realities of Ransomware. Prevent, Protect, Prepare.

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) | Sep 21, 2021 | Advisory / Strategy, Public Sector, Risk

Over the past year, there have been several high-profile ransomware attacks in which the target paid the ransom. In May, Colonial Pipeline was hacked with ransomware by DarkSide. This left many on the East Coast without gas and caused panicked gas stockpiling.

The Current State of Cloud Security

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) | Jul 29, 2021 | Advisory / Strategy, Data & Analytics, Risk

By: Herman Boma, Lead Architect, Impact Makers In the Summer of 2021, Herman Boma, Lead Cloud & Big Data Architect at Impact Makers, was interviewed by OpsCompass to discuss the key takeaways and lessons learned in the wake of the past year’s high profile...

APIs for Sharing Healthcare Data

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) | Mar 25, 2021 | Automation, Data & Analytics, Featured, Healthcare, Interoperability

This is the second post in a series about sharing healthcare data according to new CMS guidelines. The first post covers New Solutions for Sharing Healthcare Data WHY IS THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY SO FOCUSED ON USING APIs FOR SHARING DATA? In our previous blog post, we...

New Solutions for Sharing Healthcare Data

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) | Mar 15, 2021 | Advisory / Strategy, Featured, Healthcare, Interoperability

Why would providers, payers, and consumers share Healthcare data? Healthcare as an industry has been slow to implement data sharing across payers, providers and patients. Impediments to data sharing have traditionally included regulations (i.e. HIPAA) as well as the...