Core Health Technologies, a provider of healthcare integration solutions, announced today that it is focusing on health information security to address the increasing concerns and challenges of the health IT market.“Our clients made it clear that health information security is a top priority with increasing challenges,”said, Charlie Rogers, Core Health Technologies CEO.
With data breaches occurring almost daily around the country, putting patients’ personal information at risk, healthcare organizations are more and more turning to sophisticated ways of protecting their data. Experts estimate this country’s data breaches cost $6.5 billion a year. And guess who pays for it? You’re looking at us.
Health information security is a key concern for healthcare provider organizations. As a result of incentives provided under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, healthcare providers have dramatically increased their implementation of EHRs and system connectivity, which will improve quality of care, but also expose protected health information (PHI) available on expanding networks to security risks that increase almost every minute.
Just this week the University of Miami Hospital announced a data breach by employees that put patients’ Social Security numbers at risk.
According to the 2012 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data, released earlier this year, data breaches have increased astronomically over the last six years, with 27 percent of respondents stating they had experienced a security breach in the last year, up from 19 percent in 2010. Core Health Technologies did its own survey. In its 2011 Information Technology Survey of more than 1,100 participants, healthcare organization CIOs were asked, “What keeps you awake at night?” Guess what came up? No surprise. Data security.
Core, like many other healthcare enterprises, is investing heavily in finding solutions to protect healthcare data from these disastrous breaches.
Edited by
Brooke Neuman
