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HEALTHCARE SECURITY
CYBERSECURITY CHALLENGES Solving healthcare issues while improving efficiency and patient care
By Sheila Loy
Healthcare institutions face a variety of cyber- security challenges, and the threats continue to grow and evolve. Hospitals are particularly vulnerable to data breaches and ransomware attacks because of the high value of health- care data. In addition, most doctors and hos-
management (PIAM). Today’s comprehensive solutions strength- en security while making it easier for healthcare organizations to comply with regulatory mandates aimed at protecting patient information and the integrity of healthcare delivery in an increas- ingly digital world.
They also enable administrators embrace a more connected and efficient hospital in the Internet of Trusted Things (IoTT), and they open the door to using big data and machine learning in ways that will fundamentally change how healthcare institutions operate, manage risk and deliver care and other services.
The Compliance Challenge
and Opportunity
Trusted identities are integral to regulatory compliance in two key ways. First, they are used when physicians complete an au- thentication process to comply with the HIPAA Security Rule aimed at protecting patient health information. Additionally, they are used to comply with the Drug Enforcement Adminis-
pitals now use electronic prescribing, which is vulnerable to theft and fraud. Clearly, patient safety and data privacy come first, but at the same time, administrators are under intense cost pressures that can only be alleviated by improving opera-
tional security and the efficiency of clinical workflows.
Trusted identities offer the means to accomplish these ob- jectives through a holistic, end-to-end approach to identity and authentication that spans multi-factor authentication, credential management, digital certificates and physical identity and access
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