20 SECURIT Y TECHNOLOGY E XECUTIVE • Februar y/March 2017 • www. SecurityInfoWatch.com
HEALTHCARE
Mitigating Hospital Data and
Information Breaches
I
n healthcare, every member of an organiza-
tion—CEO's, doctors, even environmental ser-
vices—will play a part in patient safety. We
know this. We live this daily.
The problem when it comes to patient
healthcare data security is that no one dies
when their personal information get stolen.
The risk of data theft looks less serious than it is,
and it is hard to apportion blame or responsibility.
Worse still, this risk seems to come with the territory.
It's easy for doctors and administrators to argue that
it's necessary to risk the safety of patient data in the
name of expedient treatment.
Patient safety and patient
security can coexist without
either taking a back seat
By Val King