HIPAA gives guidelines to keeping patient data secure, but these are just the start. Data breaches can still occur if you have just done the minimum required. Discussions at the 24th National HIPAA Summit were about healthcare organizations doing more. Providers must move beyond just compliance-driven security practices, hospital leaders say. Strattmont Group can help...
Hard drive encryption is vital to keeping data secure. Whether a hard drive is lost, stolen or recycled, encryption would ensure that any data left on a hard drive is safe from falling into the wrong hands. Centene Corp learned the hard way when 6 of its hard drives were lost containing the PHI of almost a million of its customers.
Everyone wants to know that their health information is secure. We hate hearing about another healthcare organization losing control of that data. With more things going digital, that becomes more common. Hackers, foreign countries and even organized crime targeting Healthcare IT for their own gains, cybersecurity needs to be at the forefront of every healthcare business’ agenda.
