HITRUST Provides Strong Support to the Healthcare Industry against Cyber Attacks

Cyber threats are on the rise. There is no denying that. As the healthcare industry continues its conversion process from paper documents to electronic medical records, a tremendous increase in the data breaches is being experienced. Operational inefficiencies and security vulnerabilities have skyrocketed in the health care sector, owing to the use of new technologies. The outdated organizational policies and employees’ negligence have added further to the woes.

Many companies are not equipped to even detect the cyber threats, leave alone prevent them. It has therefore become imperative to have a system that can comprehensively respond and prevent such attacks in the health care industry. The HITRUST Cybersecurity Incident Response and Coordination Center has been established to provide crucial support to the healthcare industry that is being targeted.

HITRUST has taken in the responsibility to collaborate with healthcare organizations, technology and information security leaders, to ensure that the health care industry as a group is well equipped to counter all cyber-attacks. For this, HITRUST will have to manage a major industry concern, and move the industry forward by distributing timely information. This sharing of information is crucial for organizations’ preparedness, protection and crisis management.

HITRUST is tied up with leading industry organizations, representing health plans and health systems, to share incident information. It also aims to obtain and produce cyber threat and response information to make the information more readily available. And that makes it all the more important for your healthcare organization to adopt a GRC solution that can meet the HITRUST requirements.  So do you think it is that challenging for healthcare organizations to take the right action to mitigate cyber threats? Actually no! It is not at all difficult if a prudent medical practitioner or healthcare enterprise owner ensures that healthcare compliance measures are in place by adopting the appropriate compliance solution like Secure GRC.

SecureGRC, an automated compliance solution from eGestalt is designed to help healthcare organizations identify threats, vulnerabilities, remediate, and maintain a compliant environment. It helps in the distribution of information on a timely basis, identifies the sources and takes corrective actions. Secure GRC ensures that your business is prepared to handle any attacks at any given point of time.