Five Common Ways Technology Vendors Put Protected Health Information (PHI) At Risk

Healthcare IT vendors play a critical role for healthcare systems, helping them to manage enormous amounts of data in order to increase efficiency, improve patient care and improve financial performance. Unfortunately, IT vendors sometimes create new security gaps and with them new opportunities for data breaches to occur. Healthcare PHI breaches resulting from technology vendor mistakes and misunderstandings have increased over the past few years.

ClearDATA sees five common scenarios where technology vendors can inadvertently create a vulnerable environment. They are:

• Failure to assess risk
• Lack of awareness regarding system activity
• Failure to maintain the system with software patches
• Lack of training
• No approach to change management

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