Does Your Team Have These Modern Skills to Protect Healthcare Data?

The following is a guest article by Ameesh Divatia, Co-Founder and CEO at Baffle Healthcare organizations were early adopters for protecting data in the modern environment — from stringent compliance regulations to the need to share health records between offices securely. However, protecting patient data has grown more complex in recent years with the influx of new regulations, cloud computing and myriad other factors. The modern healthcare IT team must possess an array of emerging skills that allow practices to share data while ensuring that no one but the intended targets gain access to it. Let’s explore the evolution of data protection in the healthcare industry and how the best teams protect it. Regulatory Compliance Mastery Of course, HIPAA is the most prevalent regulation healthcare organizations must adhere to, but over the last decade or so, we are seeing an increase of rules related to patient data. For example, the 21st Century Cures Act, which grants patients free electronic access to their records, has forced healthcare providers to re-evaluate data sharing dramatically. HIPAA requires data to be secured unless certain exceptions arise, whereas the 21st Century Cures Act requires records to be shared with patients unless another set of exceptions appears. As a result, healthcare IT teams must be able to balance both regulations and stay in compliance. Further complicating matters are individual state data privacy laws, such as the California Consumers Protect...
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