A Holistic Strategy for Preventing Internal Breaches in Patient Data Security

In order to protect patient privacy, hospitals have been focusing their efforts on external intrusion detection and hard drive encryption. But in doing so, however, they have been overlooking a far more insidious and growing problem: internal breaches by their own staff and extended care partners.

This white paper presents ways healthcare organizations can balance the need for extended care teams to have rapid access to complete patient information with the need to safeguard the privacy of that data.

The white paper discusses:

• The Magnitude of the Problem
• Clinical and Financial Risk
• Organizational Preparedness
• Steps to Close the Security Gaps