Six Keys to Cost-Effective IT Security and Compliance for Healthcare Organizations

Eighty percent of responding healthcare organizations experienced at least one data breach within the past year. And regulators have clamped down - enforcing HIPAA Security Rule requirements with more regularity and instituting heavy financial penalties and numerous audit requirements to those non-compliant organizations. Other regulations including HITECH, PCI DSS and many state data protection/breach notification laws have placed even more urgency and burden around safeguarding electronic protected health information (ePHI) and ensuring compliance.

Yet many organizations continue to address each regulation as one-off projects and rely on compliance by spreadsheet, which is a surefire way to extend the cost, time, errors, and resources needed to complete audits. Not only is such an approach more costly, but it does not provide the necessary visibility into an organization's IT risk so that ePHI can be effectively safeguarded. This webcast examines six keys to cost-effectively ensuring IT security and compliance in the healthcare space.