No industry has as many different data breach risks as healthcare. Financial, identity, and privacy risks are just the beginning. But insurance payment depends on keeping up with government mandates such as Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and CMScompliant reports, and more is on the way. In 2017, the Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) requirements will open practice computer systems in radical new ways. Reduced payments, penalties, and denied claims push providers to take risks they aren’t prepared for without comprehensive protection.

Case Study Highlights:

• Lack of effective security and integration standards in a chaotic commercial software market

• Vulnerability of healthcare billing, communications, and patient records systems

• Increasingly aggressive attacks on small- and medium-sized healthcare organizations

• Successful attacks on large organizations inside and outside the healthcare industry

• New strategies, such as ransomware

• Timed government mandates, which may put functionality in place before protections are developed