Protecting Privacy and Maintaining Security in Telemedicine

About the Speakers

Joseph “Augie” D’Agostino is currently the Chief Information Security Officer at University of Washington Medicine. The UW Medicine Security Program supports the hospital delivery system, School of Medicine (SOM), medical research, and Airlift Northwest. His career in information technology spans over twenty-five years. He has gained experience in a variety of leadership roles in cyber security, governance, risk, and compliance over the last two decades and has focused solely on healthcare for nearly a decade. His most recent formal training was at Carnegie Mellon-Heinz College where he received a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Executive Certificate, the FBI (Seattle Office) C-Suite Academy, and the FBI CISO Academy for a week of training in Quantico, Virginia. Augie believes at the foundation of every successful security program exists a security aware culture that embraces a “brilliant at the basics” approach to information technology.  In healthcare especially, you need everyone to be a member of your security team to be successful.  He has a passion for mentoring, training, developing, and enabling others to see the “bigger picture” while working towards positive outcomes. He feels both a personal and professional sense of purpose working in the healthcare industry and appreciates being part of an organization that has a mission “to improve the health of the public.”

Lenny Sanchez, JD, CHC, is the Director of Patient Privacy at UW Medicine Compliance. He has worked in the health care for fifteen years. Prior to attending the UW School of Law, Lenny served in roles at a private Institutional Review Board and the UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences. After graduation, Lenny investigated potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules as well as federal civil rights laws with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. He then returned to the UW in 2014 as a Patient Information Privacy team member and has been directing the program since 2018. He is passionate about serving the academic medical center community and loves the dynamic, complex nature of the work.