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[ISN] Healthcare Security Pros Need To Speak The Language Of Finance
http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/news/232602213/healthcare-security-pros-need-to-speak-the-language-of-finance.html
By Ericka Chickowski
Contributing Editor
Dark Reading
March 07, 2012
As the number of healthcare data breaches continues to snowball,
executives put in charge of safeguarding protected health information
(PHI) canât keep up with the risks inherent with increased deployment of
electronic health records (EHR) without enough financial backing to get
the job done. And the only way that these PHI protectors can squeeze
that juice from the C-suite is if they make themselves fluent in the
language of financial justification, say authors of a new report out
this week on healthcare IT security.
A collaboration between the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI), via its Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management
Standards Panel (IDSP), in partnership with The Santa Fe Group/Shared
Assessments Program Healthcare Working Group, and the Internet Security
Alliance (ISA), the free report took input from 100 healthcare leaders
from 70 organizations. It was the culmination of a yearlong initiative
called the PHI Project. According to Rick Kam, president and co-founder
of ID Experts and chair of the PHI Project, the team hopes to establish
the document as the go-to resource for security and privacy officers
taking a disciplined approach at assessing and mitigating risk of
healthcare data breaches. He says that the state of the industry is such
that those in charge of securing PHI are crying out for guidance.
âBecause of the move toward electronic health records and the number of
stakeholders that are now involved in handling our sensitive patient
information, the PHI protectors are literally being outpaced in terms of
their ability to protect our information,â Kam says. âThe magnitude and
the frequency of healthcare breaches has increased rapidly because of
the number of stakeholders and the move to electronic health records.
These individuals need help.â
One of the biggest ways they need help is in simply how to package PHI
security issues in a way that makes sense to CEOs and CFOs. He and his
co-authors found that these healthcare security initiatives are
drastically underfunded and one of the main reasons is no one knows how
to make a case for the cash.
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