You can't read a news feed these days without seeing an article about a healthcare data breach. To that end, there must be further discussion to see if a better way exists to handle healthcare data to ensure the integrity, security and privacy of health information.
The increasing prevalence of cyber breaches is creating costly consumer exposure, organizational stress, service disruptions and diminished trust across the healthcare industry. As organizations strengthen their defenses against increasingly sophisticated vectors of attack, threat actors continue to respond to the new defenses, creating a relentless cycle of risk, exposure and response.
Dr. Mark Boxer, Board Chair of PNT Data Corp., makes the case in Health Data Management that the way out of the cycle is eliminating unnecessary PHI/PII exposure: less data at risk means fewer chances for attack.