Healthcare

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced its first resolution agreement with a business associate in June.

In order to understand how to better protect healthcare data, it’s important to understand just why healthcare employees are bypassing security protocols.

Healthcare organizations are one of the most challenging data security environments to protect. With often limited IT resources, these organizations need better ways to allocate resources in order to meet these threats.

With the move towards portable devices, Sacred Heart needed to ensure the hardware, and the sensitive data stored on these devices, remained protected, regardless of the device location or user.

With the high value of healthcare data, and large stores of electronic health records, healthcare organizations face a rising tide of constantly evolving threats.