If you are a hospital executive, you play a critical role in protecting your data from being breached by cyber attackers. In addition to overseeing hospital systems supporting your clinical operations, you are also responsible for overseeing hospital systems such as electronic health and medical records (EHR/EMR), billing, telemedicine, radiology, and others.
Your role in data breach defense is essential and critical. That’s why Celerium wrote an instructive paper (in PDF form) on how you can and should get involved. Here is a quick overview of what’s in Celerium’s paper.
JOINT PLANNING:
Hospital executives must work closely with IT/IS teams to develop an incident response plan (IRP) that includes clear policies and procedures for preventing data breaches.
DATA BREACH PREVENTION:
Effective prevention requires executive oversight. Hospital leaders can help IT/IS by ensuring staff understands the importance of multi-factor authentication (MFA) and properly securing legacy systems.
INVESTIGATION AND DECLARATIONS:
When a data breach is detected, immediate involvement from hospital executives is crucial. Rapid decisions must be made regarding the activation of the incident response plan (IRP) and breach disclosure protocols.
RESPONSE AND CONTAINMENT:
Containing the breach is crucial to minimizing data loss. This involves stopping the data exfiltration and preventing the breach from spreading to other systems.
COMMON UNDERSTANDING OF DATA BREACH ACTIVITY:
Hospital executives and IT/IS teams should share a common understanding of the breach’s status at the hospital or clinic level.
Celerium’s Compromise Defender® solution helps executives and IT teams collaborate more effectively and manage breaches with greater efficiency. It improves collective awareness and enhances visibility of potential threat activity through reporting and notifications.
Check out Celerium’s PDF on how Hospital Executives Must Be Involved in Data Breach Defense.
Celerium offers a no-cost, cloud-based Data Breach Defense Program powered by our Compromise Defender® solution. This program provides an additional layer of defense against data breaches, ensuring better protection and safeguarding of patient’s electronically stored (ePHI) data and compliance with HIPAA regulations.
Learn more about Celerium’s Data Breach Defense Program, and join the program here.
