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Laptops Pose Serious Data Security Risk to Hospitals, Health Systems
Hospitals and health systems are continuing to struggle with laptop vulnerabilities, caused primarily by endpoint data loss, excessive user permissions, and dormant accounts, according to new findings from Clearwater CyberIntelligence Institute. In fact, 70 percent of all high and critical risk scenarios for laptop vulnerabilities were caused by those risk areas. CCI researchers analyzed data from Clearwater’s proprietary database, which is exclusively focused on cybersecurity risks to hospitals, Integrated Delivery Networks, and business associates.
Security Risk Analyses Can Offer Significant Findings by Wes Morris
ONE OF THE critical information governance (IG) functions is successful execution of an organization’s privacy and security responsibilities. Chief among these responsibilities is to conduct an accurate and thorough assessment of the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information(ePHI). This assessment is a foundation upon which other security processes will depend. Poor or non-existent risk analysis processes have been a finding in 89 percent of settlement agreements and civil money penalties imposed by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). In 2018 alone, the cost was over $24 million for organizations that failed to implement effective risk analysis or risk management processes.
Unsecure Laptops Still a Major Security Threat For Healthcare
Unsecure Laptops Still a Major Security Threat For Healthcare
Clearwater CyberIntelligence Institute® Study Finds Laptops Still a Significant Data Security Risk for Hospitals and Health Systems
Endpoint data loss, excessive user permissions, and dormant accounts make up 70 percent of all high and critical risk scenarios for laptop vulnerabilities at hospitals and health systems across the country, according to new findings released by the Clearwater CyberIntelligence Institute (CCI), which leverages insights from Clearwater’s proprietary database—the industry’s largest and most complete database focused exclusively on the unique cybersecurity risk profiles of hospitals, Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) and business associates. Despite efforts to make laptops more secure, the CCI study found they remain a Top 10 cybersecurity risk for hospitals and health systems.
Insurance Captives: Innovation & Cost Savings for Providers
In this interview, Michelle Johns, Chief Risk Officer of IU Health and Bob Chaput, Executive Chairman of Clearwater discuss their innovative work benchmarking risk within and between large health systems. They also explore why insurance captives have become so strategically important to innovation.
Uber Health: Driving Change in Healthcare Transportation
Democratizing healthcare transportation is crucial for patients’ quality of care and quality of life. Providing approximately 10,000 rides per minute, Uber is looking to be a driving force behind healthcare transportation.
HIMSS19 to Showcase Compliance, Device Security, Vendor Management
Visitors can visit the HIMSS19 Cybersecurity Command Center at the Orange County Convention Center. Hosting security vendors like Cisco, Clearwater, FairWarning, MimeCast, IBM Security, and many others, attendees can visit these booths for conversations around security & get answers to some of the most pressing security questions.
Clearwater, Digital Reasoning launch healthcare-focused cyber risk partnership
Local cyber risk management company Clearwater has signed a three-year contract to help artificial intelligence firm Digital Reasoning protect the masses of personal health data it is crunching. Clearwater said its platform will give Digital Reasoning “administrative, technical and physical safeguards” that will be combined with workforce training, policies and procedures to safeguard information.
Clearwater Connects With Digital Reasoning
Local cyber risk management company Clearwater has signed a three-year contract to help artificial intelligence firm Digital Reasoning protect the masses of personal health data it is crunching. Clearwater said its platform will give Digital Reasoning “administrative, technical and physical safeguards” that will be combined with workforce training, policies and procedures to safeguard information.
Nashville Tech Company Bringing Artificial Intelligence To Cancer Care
Clearwater has agreed to provide cybersecurity & HIPAA compliance technology to Digital Reasoning's Oncology Software, which reads pathology & radiology reports. The software, already being used in HCA Healthcare, Inc. hospitals, will now be available to all health care providers...
Why Many Cybersecurity Programs Fall Short On Protection
Healthcare leaders representing high-scoring 2018 Most Wired recipient organizations and supporting CHIME Foundation firms joined CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell in an executive roundtable discussion about key findings in a report based on the Most Wired survey results. Only 29 percent of survey respondents reported having a comprehensive security program in place, something Branzell described in his role as moderator as “a serious surprise.”
Are Your AI Solutions Secure? 5 Considerations + 10 Questions
With the growing popularity of AI solutions, health systems need to dig deeper to manage security risk. When evaluating artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for a health system, cybersecurity may not be one of the first considerations. Perhaps it should be. In an age of increasing security threats, data management by outside parties opens the door to additional risk.
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