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April 24, 2018

Valuable Improvements Coming To New Medicare Cards

By Neath Folger

New Medicare cards to be issued, beginning April 1 From Mayo News Center On April 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin mailing new Medicare cards. Note these changes on the new cards: The gender of the beneficiary no longer will be displayed on the card. A signature no longer will […]

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April 5, 2018

ALERT! Beware IRS Phishing Scam

By Neath Folger

Beware of IRS DocuSign phishing campaign April 5, 2018 Mayo Clinic is responding to a new email phishing scam that claims the IRS has sent a document from DocuSign that is ready for review or signature. The phishing email contains a link that leads to a fake website requesting users to submit personal information, including […]

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March 15, 2018

IRS Withholding Calculator Now Available

By Neath Folger

The Internal Revenue Service has recently launched a new income tax withholding calculator and encourage everyone to use  this to perform a quick “paycheck checkup.”  This is even more important this year because of recent changes to the tax law for 2018 from the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.” The Calculator helps you identify your […]

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March 14, 2018

Watch for new ‘[External]” label in Outlook email subject lines

By Neath Folger

Feb. 23, 2018 Beginning March 6, emails from outside Mayo Clinic will be labeled “[EXTERNAL]” in the subject line. “Malware most often comes into Mayo Clinic from external emails,” says Philip Truesdale, Office of Information Security. “The ‘[EXTERNAL]’ label is a quick way to identify email from outside of Mayo Clinic that needs extra scrutiny. […]

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January 19, 2018

Cybercrime – Protecting your Assets at Home and at Mayo

By Neath Folger

January 16, 2018 Tech Talk on Cybercrime: This was focused on understanding and protecting your identity in the digital age – the latest on cybersecurity from online standards, updates in Mayo’s security requirements that affect you, hacking awareness, increasing your digital defense and what you need to do in 2018 to minimize chances of becoming […]

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January 11, 2018

Volunteering at a Mayo Clinic Near You

By Neath Folger

Volunteers are a vital part of Mayo Clinic’s mission to provide the best care to every patient. Every day, volunteers of all ages spend countless hours serving patients and visitors in key areas throughout Mayo Clinic. If you have the heart to volunteer, you will be fulfilled in a unique way. In giving, you will […]

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January 9, 2018

Improving Security When Logging Onto Select Websites

By Neath Folger

Two factor (or two step) verification is not just for Mayo access to our intranet and other online services. Now many commercial websites as well as many banks offer two factor verification as an added measure for your security when access an online account. The January newsletter from our Office of Information Security has more […]

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November 2, 2017

Having Trouble with Outlook Access (Webmail) – Read on…

By Neath Folger

Since Oct 24th and the expected change in Outlook Web Access (Webmail), we have identified problems that are going to lead to more people to seek an alternate email host or begin to use Remote Desktop to a computer located in the Emeritus Center. As you know using mcmail or imail (with Remote Access) one […]

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October 14, 2017

IMPORTANT! Outlook Web Access changes effective October 24th

By Neath Folger

Outlook Web Access (webmail) allows email access from any device connected to the internet.. These changes affect Outlook Web Access from these addresses: Effective October 24th in an effort to improve information security, Outlook Web Access will only allow viewing of selected types of files and file downloads of any size will no longer be […]

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August 29, 2017

Understanding MMSI’s role in Mayo Clinic benefits

By Neath Folger

A recent announcement of Medica acquiring MMSI (doing business as Mayo Clinic Health Solutions) has brought up many questions related to our Mayo Clinic benefits. The Total Rewards team put together a Q & A document to address benefits concerns related to this transition. This appeared on the August 29th Mayo News Center and this Q […]

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